1949/12 -- Cover is a painting by Michael

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

NOVELS:

  • "The Power Devil" by Eustace Cockrell and Herbert Dalmas and illustrated by Walter Baumhofer
  • "The Gun With Wings" -- A Nero Wolfe Mystery -- by Rex Stout with illustration by Thornton Utz

    • STORIES:

  • "An Orchid a Day" by Doris Hume with illustration by William Ritter
  • "One More Journey" by Margaret Weymouth Jackson and illustrated by Harold Anderson
  • "Wonderland Wedding" by Edgar Brooke and illustrated by Arthur Sarnoff
  • "Blackmail" by Allan Vaughan Elston and illustrated by Tom Lovell
  • "Whistle for My Love" by Walter Brooks and illustrated by Vincent Guise
  • "The Gamble" -- Short Short Story by Harold Channing Wire with illustration by Harry Bennett
  • "More Than a Dream" by William Holder and illustrated by Michael
  • "Getaway" -- Vignette by Edward E. Verdier
  • "Paper Chase" -- Storiette by Robert Andrew Arthur with illustration by Michael Bouldin

    • ARTICLES:

  • You Can Be a Clover by George T. Christopher
  • What Makes a Good Judge by U.S. Judge John C. Knox
  • We Train the World's Generals by Glenn Johnston
  • I Spent Christmas in Nazareth by Thomas Sugrue
  • Why You Give Money Away by Jerome Beatty
  • What I Know About Women from Shoes by Herman Delman
  • Cowhands on the Grapefruit Range by Don Eddy
  • Young Rebel by Weldon Melick is about Dean Stockwell

    • 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
  • It's the Law!
  • Can You Juggle Words?
  • Family Problems
  • Check That Impulse! and other distinctive comics