1948/10/16 -- Cover design by George Hughes

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

  • "Scandalous Conduct" by Robert Carson and illustrated by Wesley Snyder
  • "The Last Fight" by James Warner Bellah and illustrated by Harold Von Schmidt
  • "The Tourist's Mistake" by Kingsley Tufts and illustrated by J. Graham Kaye
  • "Fire Detective" by David Lamson and illustrated by William A. Smith

    • NOVELETTE:

  • "The Mysterious Knife" by Harold Lamson and illustrated by Amos Sewell

    • 9 ARTICLES:

  • What Kind of President Will Dewey Make? by Joseph and Stewart Alsop
  • How I Got My Goat by Bing Crosby
  • Your Neighbors: The Wongs by George Sessions Perry
  • Too Many People! by Martin Ebon
  • Errand Boy No. 1 by Arthur W. Baum about Railway Express
  • Why Is Our Air Force Back in Europe? by Demaree Bess
  • Kentucky Samaritan by John Maloney
  • The Lively Hermit of Friday Mountain by Stanley Walker is about Roy Bedichek aka "Bedi the Bird Man"
  • Gay Old Man by Joseph Wechsberg is about playwright Ferenc Molnar

    • SERIAL:

  • "Politico" -- Part 4 of 8 -- by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Perry Peterson

    • OTHER FEATURES:

  • Letters
  • Keeping Posted
  • Report to the Editors
  • Post Scripts
  • Verse
  • Editorials
  • Full-page black and white ad for Alfred Hitchcock 's Rope with a large image of Jimmy Stewart