A Ten-Page Birthday Garland to Esky From Esquire (Age XX)

October 1 1953 JOHN GROTH, E. SIMMS CAMPBELL, Barbara Shermund, ROBERT J. LEE, SYD HOFF, Dorothy Mckay, IRVING ROIR, HOWARD BAER, ELDON DEDINI

A Ten-Page Birthday Garland to Esky From Esquire (Age XX) October 1 1953

October 1 1953 JOHN GROTH, E. SIMMS CAMPBELL, Barbara Shermund, ROBERT J. LEE, SYD HOFF, Dorothy Mckay, IRVING ROIR, HOWARD BAER, ELDON DEDINI

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A Ten-Page Birthday Garland to Esky From Esquire (Age XX) October 1 1953

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The Playground

Portal to Posh

Surprise Party

Cartoons

“Gawda'mighty Gran'ma — Pa's Bin Lookin' All Over Hell Fer You"

“He Wants to Know What Have We Got That California Hasn't Got?”

"I'll take a blue one"

Barbara Shermund

"Well If You Really Are the Installment Collector, There's Someone in Here Swindling My Roommate"

"Don’t You Remember Me, Senator? You Kissed Me When I Was a Baby”

"Remember, Dorkins—'The King of Mansylvania Can Do No Wrong!'"

Dorothy Mckay

"Ah Don' Know How It Is, Honey—But Fo’ the Last Month Ah Sure Has Been Popular with the Men!”

Cartoon

"You Been Here Long?”

E. SIMMS CAMPBELL

“Don’t Cry, Darling—all Things Must End, Y’know”

"So You Think I'm a Lot Like My Father, Eh? Who Else Do You Know That I Know?”

"Why, Th' Big Dummy—Th' Big Greenhorn!"

ELDON DEDINI

"Mrs. Harry James"

"You Like It, Señor?"

"What’s New?"

HOWARD BAER

"I Really Came Here to Write a Play"

“Was I Long Getting Ready, Dear?”

"Mistera" Goes South

IRVING ROIR

"My Husband Is a Simple Man with Simple Tastes!"

"You Know Any Dames in the Neighborhood?"

"Whom Are We Having Tonight?"

JOHN GROTH

Transcontinental Troop Train

The Unconventional Warriors

Park, Market and Slum

ROBERT J. LEE

“But I Don’t Want Another Fur Coat—I Want a Trip to Florida!”

"Thank God, Back to Civilization Again!"

SHOES AROUND THE WORLD

SYD HOFF

"Relax, Rain Cloud—I'm Baby Sitting"

“This Is the Last Job You'll Get as An Extra in Hollywood!"

“I Feel It Is Only Fair to Warn You, Miss Cosgrove, That the Natives Occasionally Sacrifice a Virgin in These Parts.”

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