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Blue Book v073 n06 [1941-10], 1941
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1BLUE BOOK MAGAZINE
2October, 1941 Vol. 73, No. 6
4Nine Short Stories
5Some Call It Luck
6Illustrated by Frederic Anderson
7By H. Bedford-Jones 2
8Madame Hex
9Illustrated by Lyle Justis
10By Samuel Taylor 9
11Salvage Harry
12Illustrated by Raymond Sisley
13By Jacland Marmur 14
14Gabriel, Blow Your Horn
15Illustrated by Charles Chickering
16By William Neidig 20
17Torpedo Twitch
18Illustrated by Grattan Condon
19By Arch Whitehouse 27
20The Clock Strikes Seven
21Illustrated by L. R. Gustavson
22By Michael Gallister 67
23The Plymouth Express
24By Agatha Christie 72
25The Bookshop
26Illustrated by Charles Chickering
27By Nelson Bond 96
28Young Man with a Banjo
29Illustrated by Merritt Berger
30By H. Bedford-Jones 100
32A Complete Book-Length Novel
33Devil, Sprout Wings!
34By Granville Church 107
36Two Novelettes
37Ride to Nowhere
38Illustrated by L. R. Gustavson
39By Hugh Pentecost 34
40The Pink Duck
41Illustrated by Austin Briggs
42By Fulton Grant 57
44A Serial Novel
45The Iron Rainbow (Second of Four Parts)
46Illustrated by Raymond Sisley
47By Gordon Young 76
49Special Features
50High Lights of the New Books
51VI—"A Yankee Doctor in Paradise"
52By S. M. Lambert 53
53(1941, by S. M. Lambert. Little Brown & Co., Publisher. Excerpts reprinted by special permission of the author.)
55Readers' Forum
56Prize Stories of Real Experience
57Lanky Bob Got Mad
58A cub reporter quoted the wrong Fitzsimmons about that famous solar plexus blow
59By Samuel Ellsworth Kiser 140
60"I've Been Hungry Myself"
61He found a noted outlaw keeping a small town café and feeding the needy
62By R. S. Spears 141
63Free of Fear and Hunger, Suspicion and Hate!
64A torpedoed sailor learns to appreciate these United States of America
65By Norval Granneberg 142
66Fight Above the Desert
67Special hazards give the Saharan air war a peculiar interest
68As told to Ralph Michaelis 144
70Cover Design
71Painted by Herbert Morton Stoops
73Except for stories of Real Experiences, all stories and novels printed herein are fiction and are intended as such. They do not refer to real characters or to actual events. If the name of any living person is used, it is a coincidence.
75McCALL CORPORATION Publisher, The Blue Book Magazine
76William B. Warner, President
77Marvin Pierce, Vice-President
78Malcolm MacHarg, Vice-President
79DONALD KENNICOTT, Editor
80Francis Hutter, Secretary
81J. D. Hartman, Treasurer
83Published monthly, at [address hidden], Dayton, Ohio. Subscription Offices—Dayton, Ohio, Editorial and Executive Offices—[address hidden], New York, N. Y. THE BLUE BOOK MAGAZINE. October 1941. Vol. LXXIII, No. 6. Copyright, 1941, by McCall Corporation. All rights reserved in the United States, Great Britain, and in all countries participating in the Pan American Copyright Convention and the International Copyright Union. Reprinting not permitted except by special authorization. Subscription Prices: one year $2.50, two years $4.00. Extra in Canada, 50 cents a year. Foreigners, 60 cents a year. For change of address, give two to four weeks' notice and send old address as well as new. Special Notice to Writers and Artists: Manuscripts and other material submitted for publication in the Blue Book Magazine will be received only on the understanding that the publisher and editors shall not be responsible for loss or injury thereto while such manuscripts or art material are in the publisher's possession or in transit. Entered as second-class matter, November 12, 1930, at the Post Office at Dayton, Ohio, under the Act of March 3, 1897. Printed in U.S.A.
85READERS' FORUM
86A BOOKMARK TOO?
87The new Blue Book is better than ever, and we can now say that it has a distinctly attractive appearance. This wider form is much easier to handle than the older type.
88Your experiment with using both the two-column and three-column page is one which I hope you will continue as a permanent practice. Some stories naturally appear better in two columns, while others are more easily read in three columns. I like both types in each issue.
89But there is one improvement which I believe Blue Book can make. Why not lengthen the back cover so that the upper part of it can be turned down and used as a marker? This would enable to reader to mark the place he wants to begin reading a particular story. This provision of a marker for its readers would be an addition to the many reasons why Blue Book is the best magazine of its type on the market today.
90James G. Towery,
91Atlanta, Ga.
93FOR THE MERCHANT MARINE
94I am a librarian, or more precisely the custodian of the Seattle branch of the A.M.M.L.A. On nearly every American ship calling at this port I place a case of books and a bundle of seventy magazines. First on the list is Blue Book. I never can get enough of them to go around. I bring to the consideration of their entertainment value for American seamen a hard-boiled critical attitude. If the magazines I place with the crew are not O.K., I soon hear about it. Now and again on the electric trolleys, or by my fireside, I'll read every page of Blue Book. In the April issue I read "Berlin Masquerade" by Frederick Panton, and as an ex-corporal of the First World War I want to thank him and Blue Book. It was a splendid performance, the best I've read in a decade: "There is no darkness but ignorance." Stories of this type that portray the grim horror of modern war, and its effect on their perpetrators, are essential to our enlightenment, lest we forget and become the blind slaves of Mars instead of the intelligent defenders of democracy.
95Arthur Herbert Forder,
96Seattle, Wash.
98THE OLD ARMY SPEAKS
99Your July issue contains a letter from a man who has been a reader of Blue Book Magazine nearly as long as I have. I say "nearly," for while I (Continued on inside back cover)
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