Skip to main content
Esquire Classic
Issues
Topics
Contributors
Sign In
Subscribe
cartoon
"Open your eyes, sleepyhead!"
April
1
1945
"Open your eyes, sleepyhead!"
April
1
1945
View Article Pages
cartoon
"Open your eyes, sleepyhead!"
April
1
1945
Sign In to read this article
Get instant access to 85+ years of Esquire.
Subscribe Now!
Exclusive & Unlimited access to
Esquire Classic - The Official Esquire Archive
Every issue Esquire has ever published, since 1933
Every timeless feature, profile, interview, novella - even the ads!
85+ Years of outstanding fiction from world-renowned authors
More than 150,000 Images — beautiful High-Resolution photography, zoom into every page
Unlimited Search and Browse
Bookmark all your favorites into custom Collections
Enjoy on Desktop, Tablet, and Mobile
View Full Issue
More From This Issue
Articles
What Makes a Criminal Lawyer
April
1945
By
LLOYD SHEARER
Fiction
The Stand of the Wooden Soldier
April
1945
By
ALFRED NEUMANN
Education
Esquire’s Ready-to-Speak French II
April
1945
By
FRANK HENIUS
Fiction
The Monarch’s Last Tanto
April
1945
By
ROBERT SYLVESTER
Semi-Fiction
The Pirate and the General
April
1945
By
HOWARD FAST
Fiction
The Odyssey of Old Specs
April
1945
By
PAUL ANNIXTER
Unlock every article Esquire has ever published.
Subscribe Now!
Exclusive & Unlimited access to
every timeless profile, interview, short story, feature, advertisement
, and much more!
More From This Issue
Articles
What Makes a Criminal Lawyer
April
1945
By
LLOYD SHEARER
Fiction
The Stand of the Wooden Soldier
April
1945
By
ALFRED NEUMANN
Education
Esquire’s Ready-to-Speak French II
April
1945
By
FRANK HENIUS
Cartoons
cartoon
“I was just tryin' to figure out what there is about you that Pop thinks is so hot"
DECEMBER 1937
cartoon
"Shall I Remove My Glasses, Gentlemen?”
SEPTEMBER 1938
cartoon
“You beast! . . . I'll report you for un-American activities!”
NOVEMBER 1941
cartoon
cartoon
"It's Such a Lovely Night—let's Walk!"
FEBRUARY 1940
cartoon
“Very Truly Yours. and Now, Miss Burke, I Return You to Your Chewing Gum and Compact”
SEPTEMBER, 1941
cartoon
Vindication They're Led Old Dobbin From His Stall and as He Heeds His Country’s Call That's Not a W
OCTOBER 1942
Get instant access to 85+ years of Esquire.
Subscribe Now!
Exclusive & Unlimited access to
Esquire Classic
Everything Esquire has ever published