Skip to main content
Esquire Classic
Issues
Topics
Contributors
Sign In
Subscribe
FICTION
Happy Days for Harrison Gumedi
Enlightenment and mumbo-jumbo on the dark continent
November
1
1956
RONALD BYRON
JOHN GROTH
Happy Days for Harrison Gumedi
RONALD BYRON
November
1
1956
View Article Pages
FICTION
Happy Days for Harrison Gumedi
Enlightenment and mumbo-jumbo on the dark continent
November
1
1956
RONALD BYRON
JOHN GROTH
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
Confidential File on Confidential
November
1956
By
RICHARD GEHMAN
Esquire's Lady Fair
Betsy Palmer
November
1956
By
Louis Renault
ARTICLES
Whatever Happened to the French Mistress?
November
1956
By
MURRAY TEIGH BLOOM
ARTICLES
Cross Section U.S.A: Coal Town
November
1956
By
MONROE FRY
PERSONALITIES
Tired Man from Missouri
November
1956
By
BOOTON HERNDON
BRIEF
Don’t Shoot the Critic!
November
1956
By
HENRI TEMIANKA
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
Confidential File on Confidential
November
1956
By
RICHARD GEHMAN
Esquire's Lady Fair
Betsy Palmer
November
1956
By
Louis Renault
ARTICLES
Whatever Happened to the French Mistress?
November
1956
By
MURRAY TEIGH BLOOM
Fiction
FICTION
A Work of Art
JANUARY, 1950
By
ANTON CHEKHOV
FICTION
The White Puppies
July 4, 1978
By
Arthur Miller
Features
Marry the One Who Gets There First
APRIL 1998
By
Heidi Julavits
RONALD BYRON
FICTION
The Tokoloshi's Ball Pen
AUGUST, 1956
By
RONALD BYRON
JOHN GROTH
Dining In/Out With Esquire
JULY 1964
By
Catherine H. McBride
FICTION
Transcontinental Troop Train
AUGUST 1936
By
CHARLES L. PALMER
PICTORIAL
Land O’ Goshen
SEPTEMBER, 1954
By
JOHN GROTH
Fiction
FICTION
Fun in an Artist’s Studio
FEBRUARY, 1941
By
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
FICTION
THE GREAT DEPRESSION OF 1965
OCTOBER, 1957
By
JOHN R. TUNIS
Fiction
Breakfast
AUGUST 1981
By
JOY WILLIAMS
Get instant access to 85+ years of Esquire.
Subscribe Now!
Exclusive & Unlimited access to
Esquire Classic
Everything Esquire has ever published