1954/09/25 -- Cover design by Norman Rockwell

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

  • "Quick on the Draw" by Morgan Lewis and illustrated by Bruce Bomberger
  • "The Quarterback Who Couldn't Take It" by Emmett Watson and illustrated by Harvey Kidder
  • "Bad Woman" by Williams Forrest and illustrated by Al Buell
  • "Runaway Bomber" by Frank Harvey and illustrated by Fred Ludekens -- The crew was dead. The B-52 was on automatic pilot, and headed for the U.S.--with a live H-Bomb Aboard

    • NOVELETTE:

  • "The Gallant Code" by James R. Aswell and illustrated by Austin Briggs

    • 9 ARTICLES:

  • The Man Nobody Wanted by Dolly Staniszewski as told to Beth Day
  • My Old Man Groucho -- Part 2 of 8 -- by Arthur Marx about Groucho Marx

  • Don't Keep Off the Grass by Frank Cameron
  • How We Nabbed Russia's Number One Spy by Robert Eunson
  • The New Wonder Boy of Notre Dame by Fred Russell is about Terence Brennan
  • Now, Smile! by Corey Ford
  • Most Unpopular Men on the Road by Hal Burton
  • Public Friend No. 1 by Harold H. Martin is about Robert Moses
  • This School Is Ready for the H-Bomb by Herbert and Dixie Yahraes

    • SERIAL:

  • "The Case of the Restless Redhead" -- Part 3 of 8 -- by Erle Stanley Gardner and illustrated by James R. Bingham

    • OTHER FEATURES:

  • Letters
  • Editorials
  • Post Scripts
  • Verse
  • Keeping Posted