1939/09 -- Cover is a photograph of Jean Ware by Ashman-Selwyn

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

SHORT NOVEL:

  • Complete in this Issue -- "Over My Dead Body" is a complete Nero Wolfe story by Rex Stout and illustrated by Carl Mueller

    • SERIALS:

  • "Golden Lady" -- Part 1 -- by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Alfred Parker
  • "Broken Voyage" -- Conclusion -- by Faith Baldwin and illustrated by John Gannam

    • STORIES:

  • "Song of a Man" by Hal Borland and illustrated by Frank Hoffman
  • "Offstage Kiss" by Stewart Beach and illustrated by John La Gatta
  • "Command!" by Blaine and Jean Dupont Miller and illustrated by Mead Schaeffer
  • The Man Who Forgot -- Storiette by Richard Hoffmann with drawing by Robert Gellert
  • "Let Me Be Free" by Marian Sims
  • "Hunted Man' -- Vignette -- by Devery Freeman
  • "Labor of Love" by Vereen Bell and illustrated by Pruett Carter
  • "Inquire of the Sea" by H. Vernor Dixon and illustrated by Harold Von Schmidt

    • ARTICLES:

  • Why Can't We Live Forever? by Waldemar Kaempffert with drawings by Stevan Dohanos
  • American Youth Forum Article Awards
  • You've Got to Go After It by Tom Gill
  • Bob and Martha Take the Stump by Beverly Smith is about Senator and Mrs. Robert Taft
  • Are Mothers Necessary? by a Father
  • Making Pilots Out of Bookkeepers by Gordon Gaskill
  • Smart Girls Don't by Louise Gardiner
  • God Bless the Jitterbug by Paul Whiteman

    • FEATURES:

  • The Family Money
  • Along the Way
  • Reunion Anywhere - Poem
  • American Youth Forum - 150 Additional Awards
  • The American Scene
  • .001 -- Poem
  • Till the Doctor Comes
  • Interesting People
  • Cause for Divorce
  • Word Teasers
  • Meow! - Poem
  • The House Detective
  • America Youth Forum - 500 Honorable Mention Awards
  • It Takes All Kinds
  • The Animal Fair
  • Why Don't They?
  • Full-page color ad for The Wizard of Oz