1946/08/17 -- ITEM DESCRIPTION:
Cover design by John Falter.

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

  • "Deadline at Midnight" by Donald Barr Chidsey and illustrated by Amos Sewell
  • "Not Out for Glory" by Michael Amrine and illustrated by George Hughes
  • "Those Minor Chords" by Charles Ellsworth and illustrated by Rudolph Pott
  • "The Sound of Your Name" by Czenzi Ormonde and illustrated by George Englert

    • 8 ARTICLES:

  • "Farewell to New York" by Stanley Walker
  • "Look What Russia's Doing Now" by Demaree Bess
  • "Red Oak Hasn't Forgotten" by Milton Lehman is about the WWII losses of Red Oak, Iowa
  • "Is Horse Racing Good for a Community?" by Stanley Frank
  • "They Tell Some Whoppers About Watches" by Arthur W. Baum
  • "Nothing Stopped the Timberwolves" by Kenneth T. Downs
  • "Star-Spangled Octopus" Part 2 of 4 by David G. Wittels with photos of Jules Stein, Harry James, and Guy Lombardo
  • "Men at Work--Cow Brutes Are Like People" by Richard Thruelsen with color photographs by Ivan Dmitri

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • "Dark Passage" Part 5 of 8 by David Goodis and illustrated by Perry Peterson -- first appearance of the classic Goodis noir story which would soon be made into a film starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall
  • "Double Treasure" Part 7 of 8 by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Hy Rubin

    • OTHER FEATURES:

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

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Fred Allen for GE light bulbs, Carole Landis for Nescafe, Boeing, Association of American Railroads ad with color illustration by Ray Prohaska, and a Coca-Cola ad on the back cover.