1949/04 -- Cover is a painting by Walter Baumhofer

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

NOVELS:

  • "The Betrayal" by Norma Mansfield and illustrated by James Bingham
  • "Invitation to Murder" -- Mystery by Peter Ordway and illustrated by Bernard D'Andrea

    • STORIES:

  • "Walk on Tiptoe" by Marjorie Carter and illustrated by Robert Patterson
  • "The Man Who Couldn't Sleep" -- Short Short Story by Paul Kunasz and illustrated by Francis Chase
  • "No One But You" by Eustace Cockrell and illustrated by Austin Briggs
  • "The Quicker Hand" by Herbert Brean and illustrated by Ben Prins
  • "The Money Tree" by Ernest K. Gann and illustrated by Lonnie Bee
  • "Consolation" -- Vignette by Glenn Johnston
  • "Love That Bad Man!" by Charles Green and illustrated by Perry Peterson
  • "Swindle, Sweet and Simple" by Norbert Davis and illustrated by J. Frederick Smith
  • "Curtain Going Up" -- Storiette by Donald M. Richardson

    • ARTICLES:

  • Pioneers Next Door by William Drake
  • European Recovery ... Will You Get Your Money's Worth? by Paul G. Hoffman
  • What's Going On Inside Russia by Vance Packard
  • Toe Hold in Television by Wayne Amos
  • Big League "Wonder" Boys by Harold Rosenthal is about the 1949 rookies with small photos of Don Newcombe, Paul Hinrichs, Johnny Groth and Lloyd Merriman
  • The Trouble With Most Bridegrooms by Evelyn M. Duvall, Ph.D.
  • What It Takes to Be an Executive by Ewing W. Reilley
  • The Yankee Lord Mayor of Hamburg by Gordon Gaskill

    • FEATURES:

  • Interesting People
  • By the Way
  • Letters to the Editor
  • Why Don't They?
  • Now They've Done It
  • Food Front
  • Life's Little Problems
  • Twist a Word
  • Family Money
  • Life's Little Miracles
  • Check That Impulse!
  • It's the Law! and other distintive comics