"Esquire The Magazine For Men: Back To College Issue" September 1956
$150
Anita Ekberg Foldout College Sketchbook w/ Pinup
[146] pp.
1956
VG
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
COMMENT
FACTS AND FETISHES . . . Treasures from the unregarded depths of language . . . Aldous Huxley 43
REFLECTIONS AFTER THE CURTAINS FALL . . . Randomly reviewing himself . . . George Jean Nathan 45
THIS MAN’S WORLD . . . Open sesame to a lady’s heart . . . Paul Gallico 46
ARTICLES
LAUGHTER IN THE WRONG PLACE . . . From the lips forward . . . Joseph Wechsberg 49
THE PEOPLE VS. RUBIN WALKER . . . Presenting a fascinating legal question . . . Herbert Brean 54
WHERE DID IT GO? . . . The brightest frame of all is memory . . . Helen Lawrenson 72
TAPE RECORDERS . . . Oral robot: it has a good word for everybody . . . Martin Mayer 77
WEST COAST JAZZ . . . The music, the places and the men . . . Arnold Shaw 79
CROSS SECTION U.S.A.: CIGARETTE TOWN . . . Smooth, firmly packed Richmond . . . Monroe Fry 82
PERSONALITY
LIVING BY THE SWORD . . . Giorgio Santelli: Dashing right arm with cutting edge . . . George Wiswell 58
FICTION
A DRINK OF WATER . . . From the hot corridors of fear to cool deliverance . . . T. K. Brown III 50
LEGEND OF SHORM . . . Involuntary invocation to the rain gods . . . Robert Easton 70
PICTORIAL
ESQUIRE’S LADY FAIR . . . Anita Ekberg . . . Photograph by David Preston 61
A IS FOR ANITA . . . And E is for Ekberg: put them all together and they spell star . . . 63
SERGE OBOLENSKY . . . Man of many adjectives, all of them superb . . . Photograph by Peter Fink 98
WEARABLES
DERBY WITH A DIFFERENCE . . . It’s a soft felt, easy on the head, rakish to the eye . . . 51
THE LUSTROUS LOOK . . . Fall wardrobes have elegant simplicity and quiet poise . . . 59
COLORS WITH A COLLEGE EDUCATION . . . Key to colors that agree with the school . . . 80
ESQUIRE’S COLLEGE SKETCHBOOK . . . Fourteen points for the well-dressed undergraduate . . . 84
(For list of stores displaying these fashions, see page 137)
TRAVEL
VACATION NOW . . . Hawaii and its neighbor islands: easy to get to, lovely to visit . . . 19
HAWAII: AHEAD OF THE SUN . . . Gentle land of gentlemanly living . . . Richard Joseph 52
GIFTS
ESQUIRE’S GIFT GALLERY . . . Something for the boys whose rooms aren’t book-paneled . . . 97
BRIEF
HE LOOKED HUMAN, TOO . . . Parke Cummings 100
ESQUIRE’S BUYING GUIDE
ESQUIRE’S COLLEGE SKETCHBOOK . . . 137
DEPARTMENTS
Publisher’s Page: THE LAST BOULEVARDIER . . . 10
Editorial: RETURN OF THE NATIVE . . . 12
THE SOUND AND THE FURY . . . 14
ESQUIRE ON RECORD . . . 32
DINING IN/OUT WITH ESQUIRE . . . 34
BACKSTAGE WITH ESQUIRE . . . 36
ESQUIRE’S FASHION FINDS . . . O. E. Schoeffler 38
TALKING SHOP
SHOPPING FINDS . . . beginning on 140
CREDITS: Cover photography by Dan Wynn. The photographs for Where Did It Go?, beginning on page 72, are through the courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art Film Library and by Culver Service. Esquire’s Lady Fair, Anita Ekberg, will soon be seen in Columbia Pictures’ Zarak, Paramount’s War and Peace, and R.K.O.’s Back from Eternity.
ADVERTISERS’ INDEX . . . 137