1946/11/02 -- ITEM DESCRIPTION:
Cover design by Constantin Alajalov.

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

  • "O'Hara and a Cop's Best Friend" by Willard H. Temple and illustrated by J.W. Welch
  • "Wild Kitten" by Dorothy M. Johnson and illustrated by Ben Stahl
  • "The Ghost of General Jackson" by Minnie Hite Moody and illustrated by Glenn Fleischmann
  • "The Royal Touch" by James Charles Lynch and illustrated by Lonie Bee

    • NOVELETTE:

  • "Too Old to Be Spanked" by Tristram Tupper and illustrated by Fredric Varady

    • 8 ARTICLES:

  • "Hollywood's No. 1 Wit" Part 1 of 2 by Pete Martin is about Nunnally Johnson with photos by Gene Lester
  • "Sellout in Yugoslavia" by Leo D. Hochstetter
  • "The Inside Story of the Munich Bomb" by Wener Knop is about the plot that came within six minutes of liquidating Hitler
  • "Chip on Our Shoulder Down South" by Hodding Carter in which the author "tells off the North for electing Bilbo, puts his finger on a dangerous trend, and tells us what he thinks we should do about it" with photos of the author and one of two klansmen burning a cross
  • "Big Bad Bulldog from Dixie" by Fred Russell is about Charley Trippi
  • "Norman Rockwell Visits a Country School" is four pages, the first two including a huge color illustration of school children by Rockwell, and the following two covered with 8 black & white illustrations of the children by Rockwell
  • "They Never Leave This Real Shangri-La" by Ernest R. May is about the island empire of Niihau
  • "Two-Finger Tim, the Candid Candidate" by Joanathan Daniels is about Bascom Nolley Timmons

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • "Station West" Part 3 of 7 by Luke Short and illustrated by Harold Von Schmidt
  • "The Battered Bride" Part 7 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: Maxwell House Coffee ad featuring "The Crossroads" painted by Alfred Mira as part of the American Scene series, a half-page ad featuring Jimmy Stewart & Donna Reed in Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life, Mennen Skin Bracer ad with illustration of leggy redhead, half-page ad for Gillette features illustration of Steve Van Buren by Rank Williams, and a Camel Cigarettes ad featuring the headline "More Doctors Smoke Camels Than Any Other Cigarette" on the back cover.