1946/01/05 -- ITEM DESCRIPTION: Cover design by Stevan Dohanos.

Complete contents picked up from the contents page of this issue are as follows:
4 SHORT STORIES:

  • "A Time to Bow Out" by Win Brooks and illustrated by Alex Ross
  • "Partners" by Neill C. Wilson and illustrated by Harold Von Schmidt
  • "Had Wonderful Time" by Frank Bunce and illustrated by Gilbert Bundy
  • "Never Share a Taxi!" by Paul Ernst and illustrated by James R. Bingham

    • 8 ARTICLES:

  • "Subway Sam" by David G. Wittels is about Sam Rosoff
  • "We Captured Hermann Goering" by Capt. Harold L.Bond
  • "The Mysterious Mr. Allen" by Kenneth Crawford is about George Edward Allen
  • "What If We Had Invaded Japan?" by Philip Gustafson, Lt. Commdr, USNR
  • "Break It Up" by Robert Wood Johnson
  • "The Cities of America -- Madison" Part 8 of a series by George Sessions Perry
  • "My Three Years With Eisenhower" part 4 of 10 of a diary by Capt. Harry C. Butcher, USNR
  • "Is the Atom Terror Exaggerated?" by George Axelsson

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • "Hide-out" conclusion by William E. Porter and illustrated by Thornton Utz
  • "The D.A. Breaks a Seal" part 6 of 7 by Erle Stanley Gardner and illustrated by Geoffrey Biggs

    • OTHER FEATURES:

  • Keeping Posted
  • Report to the Editors
  • Post Scripts
  • Editorials
  • Poetry

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Old Gold Cigarettes illustrated by Clark Agnew, full page for Scarlet Street starring Edward G. Robinson and Joan Bennett, "Meet the New Mars-9, 1946 Deluxe Model" ad for Casco illustrated by Boris Artzybasheff*, Bituminous Coal Institute ad with over half of the page a color illustration by Rockwell Kent, full-page for RKO's The Spiral Staircase with Dorothy McGuire, Ray Milland for Calox*, and "The World's Friendliest Club ... Admission 5 Cents" Coca-Cola ad on the back cover. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))