1946/10/26 -- ITEM DESCRIPTION:
Cover design by John Atherton.

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

  • "Hidden Evidence" by William MacHarg and illustrated by George Hughes
  • "Applesauce Needs Sugar" by Victoria Case and illustrated by Amos Sewell
  • "The Big Lot Sale" by Henry Carlton Jones and illustrated by L.R. Gustavson
  • "Spoiling for Trouble" by Victor Ullman and illustrated by Hy Rubin

    • A POST BOOK CONDENSATION:

  • "What's Wrong With American Mothers?" by Dr. Edward A. Strecker

    • 8 ARTICLES:

  • "Atlantic Graveyard" by Leslie Roberts is about the sand bars of Sable Island
  • "This Coach Is a Softie -- He Says" by Collie Small is about Southern California's Jeff Cravath
  • "The Starving Playground of Power Politics" by Ernest O. Hauser
  • "Let's Let the Airlines Fly" by Wesley Price
  • "The Cities of America -- Des Moines" 22nd of a Series by Milton Mackaye
  • "Dixie Deer Hunt" by Robert C. Ruark with photos by David Robbins of the North Carolina Hunt Club
  • "The Thirty-Million Dollar Flower" by Frank J. Taylor
  • "Anything for a Constituent" by William Chapman White

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • "Station West" Part 2 of 7 by Luke Short and illustrated by Harold Von Schmidt
  • "The Battered Bride" Part 6 of 7 by Robert Carson and illustrated by Coby Whitmore

    • OTHER FEATURES:

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

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: large color photo of Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy for G-E Lamps, Nelson Eddy for Columbia Records, Walter Huston for Parker Pens with illustration by Boris Artzybasheff, TWA "Magic Carpet to Arabia" ad, Zippo Windproof Lighter, Cinco Cigars with photo from crowd at Soldier Field in Chicago, two half-page ads on facing pages for The Best Years of Our Lives the first with Fredric March & Myrna Loy and the second with Dana Andrews & Teresa Wright, Schick Electric Razor, and a Camel Cigarettes ad featuring the headline "More Doctors Smoke Camels Than Any Other Cigarette" on the back cover.