1959/11/21 -- ITEM DESCRIPTION: Cover design by Thornton Utz.

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

  • "That First Husband" by John O'Hara and illustrated by Mike Ludlow
  • "Bottle of Death" by Gilbert Ralston and illustrated by Mitchell Hooks
  • "Meeting By Moonlight" by Paul Darcy Boles
  • "Mr. Gallup and the Cargo Snatchers" by Norman Reilly Raine and illustrated by Stan Galli

    • ARTICLES:

  • "We Salvaged the African Queen" by Lloyd Deir, as told to Clay Blair, Jr.
  • "The Face of America: Noisy Little Race" -- Photograph by John Burns
  • "A Primer for Chumps" by Philip G. Fox as told to Stanley Frank is about gambling odds
  • "Saving Children from Mental Retardation" by Ruth and Edward Brecher
  • "The Fans Expect Him to Win" by Tom Siler is about S.M.U. coach Bill Meek
  • "The Jerry Geisler Story, Part II: The Chaplin Case" by Jerry Geisler, as told to Pete Martin in which the defense lawyer talks about the 1944 Charlie Chaplin morals case and the unusual Lili St. Cyr trial
  • "Inside the Vatican" by Ernest O. Hauser
  • "Adventures of the Mind, 40: What Is Existentialism?" by William Barrett
  • "They Suit the Big Shots" by Peter Wyden about Swartz Brothers in Baltimore

    • SERIALS:

  • "Violence on the Plains" part 1 of 8 by Charles O. Locke and illustrated by Fred Otnes
  • "Too Many Ghosts" part 4 of 7 by Paul Gallico

    • OTHER FEATURES:

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

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Charlton Heston & Gary Cooper in "The Wreck of the Mary Deare"*, Delco Batteries with art by Steig*, and a Coca-Cola ad on the back cover. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))