1956/01/20 -- Cover featuring Vice-President Richard Nixon is credited toPhilippe Halsman and Bob Willoughby

Contents as follows:

ARTICLES:

  • Report on the Republicans: Triumph or Trouble Ahead? by Roscoe Drummond
  • For Garlic Lovers Only by Duncan MacDougald, Jr.
  • Nato's Navy by Cornelius Ryan
  • The Old Gang of Mine by Benny Goodman with Richard Gehman about Benny Goodman with photos and an Al Hirschfeld cartoon featuring Harry James, Gene Krupa, Teddy Wilson and Lionel Hampton
  • Disarmament After Geneva by Arnold J. Toynbee
  • Where Does Big Labor Go From Here? by John Herling
  • Frankie and Johnny is two pages of color photos from "Meet Me in Las Vegas" featuring Cyd Charisse and John Brascia
  • Slingshot "Shorty" by Margaret Morgan Mabry
  • Out Where It Really Snows by Hal Roth

    • SHORT STORIES

  • "A Taste of Fear" -- The Short Short Story -- by Walt Meade with small illustration by Louis S. Glanzman
  • "The Tallahassee Jinx" by John Savage and illustrated by Harry Devlin
  • "Housewife Is an Honorable Word" by Jerome Ellison and illustrated by Barbara Schwinn

    • SERIAL

  • "Mad River" -- Part 2 of 3 -- by Donald Hamilton and illustrated by James Dwyer

    • FEATURES:

  • Appointment with O'Hara by John O'Hara
  • 48 States of Mind by Walter Davenport
  • Letters
  • Collier's Credits by Jerome Beatty
  • Collier's Comment