1948/07/03 -- Cover design by John Falter

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

  • "Treasure Trap" by Don Waters and illustrated by Bernard D'Andrea
  • "Honeymoon for Three" by David Lamson and illustrated by S.B. Valentine

  • "The Pay-Off Punch" by Harry Newman and illustrated by Fred Ludekens

  • "The Other Woman" by Loretta Burrough and illustrated by George L. Connelly

    • 8 ARTICLES:

  • Look What He's Doing to Chicago! by Charles B. Cleveland is about Mayor Martin Kennelly
  • Was Ambassador Oumansky Murdered? by Kirrill Mikhailovich Alexeev
  • Do Campaigns Really Change Votes? by George Gallup and William A. Lydgate
  • Mr. Universe by John Durant is about Steve Stanko
  • We'll Have Fewer Cavities Now by Jerome Ellison
  • My Twelve Years With FDR -- Part 5 of 8 -- by Harold L. Ickes
  • Broadway's Happy Hartmans by Maurice Zolotow with color photos of Grace and Paul Hartman
  • Two Weeks With Pay by Robert M. Yoder and Don Tobin

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • "Till Death Do Us Part" -- Conclusion -- by John and Ward Hawkins and illustrated by George Hughes
  • "No Escape" -- Conclusion -- by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Hy Rubin

    • OTHER FEATURES:

  • Letters
  • Keeping Posted
  • Report to the Editors
  • Post Scripts
  • Editorials
  • Verse
  • Rosalind Russell ad for Chesterfields on the back cover