Vogue's First Reader: Edited by Frank Crowninshield

The cream of classic literati in Vogue articles and shorts. In this volume: Conversational Kleptomania and Patchwork, G.B. Stern; Rather Late For Christmas, Here We Stand and There Was No More Sea, Mary Ellen Chase; A Prologue To America, Thomas Wolfe; My Life Is An Open Book, Clifton Fadiman; Home To Truro, Robert Nathan; The Clark's Fork Valley, Wyoming, Ernest Hemingway; The World Within Us and I Remember Christmas In France, André Maurois; The Weather Of Our Soul and RedMountain, Irwin Edman; Four Painters, Henrik Willem Van Loon; You're On The Air Now, What This Country Needs, My Friends,Is More Love and Decor and the Morons, Ilka Chase; Souvenir, Splendide Apartment, I Love You - I Love You - I Love You, ChileCon Amore and No Trouble At All, Ludwig Bemelmans; Brooklyn Is My Neighbourhood, Carson McCullers; Happy Land and NowAt Last A House of My Own, Katherine Anne Porter; The China You Don't Know, Helena Kuo; The Old Home Town and Five PrettyLittle Fables, William Saroyan; Churchill's Favourite Aunt, Oliver St. John Gogarty; Dinner With Turbot, Ford Madox Ford; Landscape - With Figures, Frederic Prokosch; Nehru of India, Krishnalal Shridharani; I Remember Christmas In Holland, Pierre Van Paassen; I Remember Christmas In Belgium,Robert Goffin; Humour - The Bomb-Proof Kind, Virginia Cowles; They're Human After All, Katharine Brush; Chungking's Broadway, Clare Boothe; Ten Answers on Japan, Wilfred Fleisher; They Never Got Into MyColumn, Major George Fielding Eliot; But Where Is Picasso? André Géry; Something To Remember You By, Sylvia Thompson; ILike The Circus, Paul Gallico; The Impossible Glory, Rebecca West; The Scars of London, Cecil Beaton; Gertrude Stein In France, Thérèse Bonney; Me And The French, Margaret Case Harriman; Murder In The Music Room, Samuel Chotzinoff; Art andCamouflage, Elliot Paul; Off-Stage Noises, Aline Bernstein; Sarah Bernhardt Left Them Kneeling, Laurette Taylor; File No. 113, Robert Simon; Do Men Like Witty Women? Stephen Leacock; In A Velvet Glove, Allene Talmey; Dry Tortugas, Archibald MacLeish; Southern Exposure, Ralph McGill; Waiter, Bring Me Anything; Edward Bosley Jnr; A Wit With A Whim of Iron, TheHouse of Vanderbilt, The Mrs. Astor I Remember, We Have With Us This Evening and Fashions in Painting, Frank Crowninshield; Fanny - You Fool! and I Sing While I Cook, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings; The Lady is An Engineer, Patricia Strauss; I Saw TheMoscow Blitz, Margaret Bourke-White; The Wine-Diver, V. Shishkov; Now...Twenty Centuries Later, James Hilton; The Voice OfAfrica, Stuart Cloete; Bucks County Auction, Josephine Herbst; Perennial Immortality and My Favourite Cooks, Lee Simonson; NoBed Of Roses, Isabel Paterson; Orson, The Wizard, Welles, J.P. McEvoy; Anything For A Laugh, Max Eastman; Thanks To Casey Jones, John Mason Brown; American Women...So Pretty, Jules Romains; Renaissance Profiles, Leo Lerman; The InfantGourmet, Sheila Hibben; The Position of Women in Music, Sir Thomas Beecham; These Grapes Need Sugar, Rex Stout; Forty -When The Baby Was Born, Maddy Vegtel; Women of Fashion In Tehuantepec, Miguel Covarrubias; Raphaels Without Hands, ThePassing of The Blops and Woman's Place In The Dark Room, M.F. Agha; Winston Churchill's American Mother, Millicent Fenwick; I Wanted To Draw and Embroidery, Ivy Low; ChautauquaWeek, Vincent Sheean; I Remember Billy Mitchell, Major Alexander P. De Seversky; War On Our Road, Jan Spiess; What Makes An Orator? and I RememberChristmas In Austria, Leo Lania; Who'sLoony Now, Alexander King.