1946/05/04 -- ITEM DESCRIPTION: Cover design by Doris Lee.

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

  • "Everything Here is the Same" by Leon Ware and illustrated by Lonnie Bee
  • "The Freedom Suit" by Minnie Hite Moody and illustrated by Amos Sewell
  • "Meet Me At the Altar" by Fredric Sinclair and illustrated by Dink Siegel
  • "Mr. Chinnus and the Night Crowders" by Glenn Allan and illustrated by Floyd Davis
  • A FULL-LENGTH NOVEL (in three parts):

  • "Miss Ranskill Comes Home" Part 1 of 3 by Barbara Bower and illustrated by George Hughes
  • 8 ARTICLES:

  • "The Feather Merchants of Pine Bluff" by Arthur W. Baum
  • "We Should Annex 50,000 Square Miles of Ocean" by Harold F. Clark and George T. Renner
  • "Thoroughbreds Don't Just Grow" by Hambla Bauer
  • "The Bombardier Who Would Build Cities" by Richard Tregaskis
  • "The Hate That Failed" by William L. Worden looks to be about the West Coast's Returning Japanese Americans
  • "The Washing Machine Goes Juke-Box" by Robert M. Yoder
  • "Mexico's Never-Never Island"
  • "Does the Weather Make You Sick?" by Steven M. Spencer
  • SERIAL:

  • "Man from Japan" part 5 of 6 by Leslie Ford and illustrated by Edwin Georgi
  • 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 Monet, Mennen Skin Bracer illustrated by Mingo, 7-up baseball themed ad, Pennsylvania Oils ad with horse racing illustration by Fred Ludekens, TWA, Nescafe ad with color illustration by Arthur Szyk, Springmaid Fabrics with Clayton Knight illustration*, American Airlines ad on the inside back cover illustrated by Albert Dorne, and a Kodak ad on the back cover. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))