1956/06/08 -- Contents as follows:

ARTICLES:

  • Four Great Medical Triumphs Just Ahead: Cancer, heart trouble, mental illness, virus--all may soon be under control by William L. Laurence
  • 20 Budget Vacations for 1956 by Norman D. Ford
  • HIgh Jinks in High Society by Martha Weinman featuring 2 pages of color photos of Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby
  • "Religion Will Survive in Russia" by Dr. Walter W. Van Kirk
  • ...So Goes the South by George McMillan about Georgia's Senate Primary Fight
  • Dolled-Up Dodgers - Brooklyn's ballplayers model the latest in men's summer fashions - Pictured at leisure and at the beach are Clem Labine - Carl Furillo - Carl Erskine - Walter Alston - Don Zimmer - Pee Wee Reese - Gil Hodges (2 pages total, color)
  • Volcanoland by Leonard A. Stevens about El Salvador's Izalco
  • The Major of St. Lo by Cornelius Ryan and illustrated by Joseph Hirsch

    • SHORT STORIES

  • "The Men Women Marry" -- The Short Short Story -- by John D. MacDonald and illustrated by Fred Otnes
  • "Flying Time: Seven Minutes" by Walt Grove and illustrated by Fletcher Martin
  • "Stacked Deck" by Lawrence G. Blochman and illustrated by James Dwyer

    • SERIALS

  • Old Yeller -- Part 1 of 3 -- by Fred Gipson and illustrated by C.E. Monroe, Jr. (image of Yeller attacking a bear)

    • FEATURES:

  • Collier's Credits by Jerome Beatty, Jr.
  • Appointment with O'Hara by John O'Hara
  • Letters
  • Wrong Number by Gustav Lundberg
  • 48 States of Mind by Walter Davenport
  • Collier's Comment