1956/05/11 -- The cover features Phil Silvers as Sgt. Bilko with other cast members surrounding him

Contents as follows:

ARTICLES:

  • Kefauver Rides Again by Theodore H. White about Estes Kefauver
  • Gesell on Youth by Jack Harrison Pollack
  • You Can Go Home Again by Eric Sevareid with illustration by Lynn Ward
  • Backstage With Phil Silvers by Michael Drury
  • Prison Without Bars by Bruno Shaw
  • "Big Galoot From Vinegar Bend" by Tom Meany about Vinegar Bend Mizell
  • Quiz on Cuisine -- No. 1 by Ann Seranne and Eileen Gaden
  • Subways Under the Icecap by James J. Haggerty, Jr.
  • Branding Logs Like Cattle by Byron Fish

    • SHORT STORIES

  • "The Scent of Danger" -- The Short Short Story -- by Dan Tyler Moore with illustration by Jan Balet
  • "The Kiss at Croton Falls" by Irwin Shaw and illustrated by Albert Dorne
  • "Class D Violence" by Charles Einstein and illustrated by Richard Hook

    • SERIAL

  • "The Keen Land" -- Part 1 of 2 -- by Jack Schaefer and illustrated by Edwin Dawes

    • FEATURES:

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