1949/08 -- Cover is a painting by Scott Evans

Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

NOVELS:

  • I Am Still Alive by Edward Hope and illustrated by Fredric Varady
  • Murder for the President's Purse -- Mystery by Hugh Pentecost and illustrated by James Bingham
  • STORIES:

  • Speak to Me, Darling by Scott Young and illustrated by John Alan Maxwell
  • Murderess by Dorothy Curnow Handley and illustrated by Andrew Loomis
  • One More Chance by Belva Plain and illustrated by Wesley Snyder
  • Toro by Robert Carse and illustrated by Tom Lovell
  • This Is Magic by Francis K. Allan and illustrated by Ernest Chiriaka
  • Sole Mates -- Vignette by Eddie Forester
  • Do Not Disturb -- Short Short Story by Allan Vaughan Elston with illustration b y J. Frederick Smith
  • The Sitter and the Socker by Judson Philips and illustrated by Lonnie Bee
  • Anniversary -- Storiette by Octavus Roy Cohen
  • ARTICLES:

  • You Have 20 Chances to My One by Charles G Willoughby
  • We Can Give Away Too Much by U.S. Senator George W. Malone
  • Don't Shoot, Ma! by Roy Rogers - with two color photos of Rogers, one on Trigger and one with his family
  • I Owe My Life to the Atom Bomb by I.S. Randall
  • Travelers Tell All by Hubert Kelley
  • How to Pick a Perfume by Philip C. Smith
  • We're on the Road to Bankruptcy by U.S. Senator harry F. Byrd
  • You Can Write It Down... by V.K. Zworykin, Ph.D.
  • FEATURES:

  • Interesting People, includes color page featuring starlet Betty Garrett
  • By the Way
  • Letters to the Editor
  • Why Don't They?
  • Letters to the Editors
  • Food Front
  • Now They've Done It
  • Life's Little Problems
  • Can You Outsmart a Cat?
  • Life's Little Miracles
  • It's the Law!
  • Family Problems
  • Check That Impulse! and other distinctive comics