1956/05/25 -- The cover features cover girl Barbara Wallace of Fort Wayne, IN photographed by Gene Cook and Duke Snider of the Brooklyn Dodgers credited to Hugh Broderick

Contents as follows:

ARTICLES:

  • Gesell on Teen-Agers -- Part 2: New insight into the years 13 to 16 -- by Jack Harrison Pollack
  • The Vanishing Cowboy by Frank Farmer
  • Rembrandt - 2 facing pages filled with reproductions of Rembrandt's paintings
  • I Play Baseball for Money--Not Fun by Duke Snider with Roger Kahn with full-page color photo of the Duke's face
  • What Made Vuky Race? by Cornelius Ryan and illustrated by David Stone Martin is about Bill Vukovich
  • Boston's $50,000,000 Mile by Leonard Gross
  • Ike's Minister for Prosperity by Carroll Kilpatrick
  • The Weeper by Aline Mosby is about Rod Steiger

    • SHORT STORIES

  • "Leni" -- The Short Short Story -- by Elizabeth Starr Hill with illustration by Anthony Saris
  • "You Know Them So Little" by Josiah E. Greene and illustrated by Louis S. Glanzman
  • "The Idea Man" by Robert McLaughlin and illustrated by Tom Lovell

    • SERIAL

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

    • FEATURES:

  • Appointment with O'Hara by John O'Hara
  • Interlocked Interlude by John Dempsey
  • Letters
  • 48 States of Mind by Walter Davenport
  • Collier's Credits by Jerome Beatty, Jr.
  • Did You Ever Come Home Late? by Virgil Partch
  • Collier's Comment