1952/10/25 -- Cover design by George Hughes

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

  • "The Perfect Model" by Corey Ford and illustrated by Mortimer Wilson
  • "The No-Talent Kid" by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. and illustrated by Amos Sewell
  • "The Battle on the Cliffs" by Neill C. Wilson and illustrated by Bruce Bomberger
  • "The Mutinous Mate" by John T. Rowland and illustrated by Austin Briggs

    • 9 ARTICLES:

  • Ridgway's Toughest Job by Ernest O. Hauser
  • He Made the Coast See Red by Dick Hyland and Keith Monroe about Jess Hill and USC
  • The Inside Story of Our First Hydrogen Bomb by Stewart Alsop and Dr. Ralph Lapp

  • Can Ike Crack the Solid South
  • Chicago's Sunday Jungle by Ralph Knight features Marlin Perkins
  • They're Learning that Patients Are People by Hannah Lees

  • School for Smart Young Things by Richard L. Neuberger
  • I Hate to See Those Cotton Pickers Go by George Sessions Perry
  • In My Case It Was Cancer by Elizabeth R. Bills

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • "Commanche Attack" -- Part 1 of 6 -- by Dick Pearce and illustrated by Harold Von Schmidt
  • "Washington Whispers Murder" -- Part 5 of 8 -- by Leslie Ford and illustrated by Edwin Georgi

    • OTHER FEATURES:

  • Letters
  • Editorials
  • Remember When?
  • Post Scripts
  • Verse
  • Keeping Posted