1948/10/09 -- Cover design by Mead Schaeffer

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

  • "Unwanted Woman" by Annemarie Ewing and illustrated by Richard Hook
  • "One More Inning" by Frank O'Rourke and illustrated by Robert Riggs
  • "Suicide Flight" by Walt Grove and illustrated by James R. Bingham
  • "Strange Wedding" by I.A.R. Wylie and illustrated by Ben Stahl

    • NOVELETTE:

  • "Divorcee's Choice" by Eustace L. Adams and illustrated by Alex Ross

    • 8 ARTICLES:

  • Can We Defend the Panama Canal by Sidney Shalett
  • People Will Buy Anything by George H. Bean

    • Football's Lazy Terror by Russ Davis is about Steve Van Buren

  • Your Neighbors: The Offerdahls by George Sessions Perry
  • A Fighting General Tells His Story: Waging Peace with the Russian Needlers by Maj. Gen. E.N. Harmon and Milton MacKaye
  • The Old Ships Come Home by Hamilton Cochran
  • The Cities of America: Jackson, Mississippi by Harold H. Martin
  • We Need More Country Doctors by Steven M. Spencer

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • "Politico" -- Part 3 of 8 -- by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Perry Peterson
  • "The Steel Mirror" -- Conclusion by Donald Hamilton and illustrated by Geoffrey Biggs

    • OTHER FEATURES:

  • Letters
  • Keeping Posted
  • Report to the Editors
  • Post Scripts
  • Verse
  • Editorials
  • Interesting General Mills ad features a letter from Betty Crocker "To the girl who married Bob Feller" with a half-page color photo of Mrs. Virginia Feller with sons, Stevie, 3, and Marty, 1, hovered over a book with a photo of Feller in uniform behind them
  • Coca-Cola ad on back cover -- "Pause to Refresh...Have a Coca-Cola"