1956/04 -- Cover is a photograph by Paul D'ome Studios

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

ARTICLES:

  • By the Way - What We Know About You by The Editor
  • Salk Shots For My Child by Jane Krieger
  • I Disarmed the A-Bomb That Wouldn't Explode by Dr. John C. Clark
  • What the Farmer Really Wants by Governor Fred Hall

  • Only Children Tell the Truth by Art Linkletter
  • Keep You Eye on the Castoffs by Edward Linn is about baseball's kicked around veterans helping contenders, with small photos of Billy Klaus, Tommy Byrne, Monte Irvin and Ray Murray
  • Ireland's Magic Never Dies by Gary MacEoin
  • How to Upholster a Chair by Walter Ian Fischman
  • Smoky Mountain Holiday by Wyatt Blassingame

    • NOVELS:

  • The Image of Sharon by Josephine Bentham and illustrated by Morgan Kane
  • Essence of Murder -- Mystery by Peter Ordway

    • STORIES:

  • The Real Me by Ruth Henning and illustrated by Bernard D'Andrea
  • Emergency Call by John Ehle with illustration by Alex Ross
  • Doghouse for Two by B.M. Atkinson Jr. and illustrated by J. Frederick Smith
  • Petticoat Pilgrims by Gordon Gaskill and illustrated by John McClelland
  • The Red Wagon -- Short Short Story by Leon Ware with illustration by Wesley Snyder

    • FEATURES:

  • Letters Across the Editors' Desks
  • Movies of the Month
  • Today's Fabulous Figures
  • Platters Up
  • Why Don't They?
  • Funny Side of the Street
  • Interesting People, includes full-color photo of Ernie Burch, aka Blinko the Clown, in makeup

  • Patterns -- 4-in-1 Table
  • Help for Your House
  • Now They've Done It!
  • Globe Trotting Trudy
  • It's the Law!
  • Directory of School and Camps
  • What's Your Mechanical I.Q.?