1946/06/22 --
Cover "Commencement" painted by Monte Crews

Contents as follows:
ARTICLES:

  • Europe's Children by Harry Edward Neal
  • I Hate Cocktail Parties! by Paul Gallico
  • Rolling Home by Violet Vincent is about trailers
  • Diamond-Decked Drudge by Alyce Canfield is about movie star Vivian Blaine
  • One Morning in August by Victor Boesen is about Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  • How Do you KNOW You're You? by Sewell Peaslee Wright
  • STORIES:

  • "Girl of My Childhood" by Martha Ostenso and illustrated by Larry Kritcher
  • "Foul Ball" by John D. Weaver and illustrated by Eddie Bowie
  • "The Gay Life" -- Short Short by Georges Carousso and illustrated by James Cole
  • "The Mystery of Monsieur Pliny" by Allan Vaughan Elston and illustrated by Howell Dodd
  • "Comeback" by Walter Roeber Schmidt and illustrated by Jay Nourbel
  • PICTURES:

  • The Camera Eye is 2 facing pages filled with black & white photos, this issue includes two shots of Betty Hutton with director George Marshall, one of Mary Tharp, and more
  • BOOK CONDENSATION:

  • Kiss the Blood Off My Hands by Gerald Butler and illustrated by Lawrence Butcher
  • FEATURES:

  • Vox Pop
  • On the Beam
  • Veterans' Bulletin Board
  • Books in Review
  • Crossword Puzzle
  • Woman-Talk
  • Colonel Stoopnagle's Fictionary
  • Liberty Goes to the Movies
  • The Thropp Family written by Lawrence Lariar and illustrated by Don Lou
  • EDITORIAL:

  • Why the Russians Act That Way by Paul Hunter
  • Five-Star Finals is a 4-stanza poem by Berton Braley