Arnold Gingrich

During the Hayes–Gingrich era, Esquire played a leading role in launching the New Journalism, publishing writers including Tom Wolfe and fellow fraternity brother Gay Talese.

"[5] The magazine he created set the template for future men's magazines of the mid-century period; for example, Playboy, a variation, essentially Esquire with nude photographs (Esquire had famously published a series of "Vargas Girl" paintings and other "cheesecake" imagery since its founding).

Further afield, even The Atlantic and other regional and national publications exhibit styling and content first evidenced in the pages of Esquire.

Indeed, Esquire was one of the forerunners of this genre, blending aspects of traditional, if upper-crust masculine pastimes such as armchair discussions of Ivy League pedigree, East Coast fraternalism, and literary interest with "the sporting life", such as horses and angling, fashion, love of tobacco and whiskey, and admiration for the feminine.

In it, Gingrich recounts his experience with cars (he owned several notable Bentleys), including a classic R-series and S-series "Countryman" (obtained through the late J. S. Inskip in Manhattan), as well as an early Volkswagen.

Other interests include transatlantic liners (notably the Normandie), French hotels, Dunhill pipes and Balkan Sobranie tobacco, clothes and all manner of other possessions and accommodations.