1941/12 - Front cover: Elyse Knox photographed by Angelo Patri

Contents include:

REDBOOK'S NOVEL OF THE MONTH:

  • "All Those Lovely Years" by Peter Paul O'Mara

    • REDBOOK'S NOVELETTE OF THE MONTH:

  • "Violet Does a Little Lend-Leasing" by Whitfield Cook and illustrated by William Reusswig

    • REDBOOK'S ENCORE OF THE MONTH:

  • Passages from "Pattern of Conquest" by Joseph C. Harsch

    • TWO SERIALS:

  • "The Hour Before Dawn" -- Part 1 by W. Somerset Maugham and illustrated by Tom Webb
  • "Somewhere East of Sunrise" -- Part 2 by Ursula Parrott and illustrated by John Polgreen

    • SEVEN SHORT STORIES:

  • "A Gentleman of Fortune" by Stephen Vincent Benet and illustrated by Elmore Brown
  • "We Were Both Children" by Franz Hoellering and illustrated by Andrew Loomis
  • "Finders Keepers" by Hugh Bradley and illustrated by Earl Oliver Hurst
  • "U.S. Today" -- Part 8 by Henrietta Ripperger
  • "The Bachelor" by Mignon McLaughlin and illustrated by Marshall Frantz
  • "A Chance to Meet the Girls" by MacKinlay Kantor and illustrated by Andrew Loomis
  • "Strictly Sentimental" by Duane Decker and Alan Foster

    • WHERE ARE WE GOING? AND WHY?

  • "What Will Happen to Me and My Girl?" by Morris Markey
  • Legions of Revenge by Vincent Sheean
  • How to Beat Anxiety by Smiley Blanton, M.D.

    • EIGHT SPECIAL FEATURES:

  • News about Redbook
  • Our Readers Speak
  • It Was Their Lucky Year with photos of Warren Wright, Dorothy McGuire, Rita Hayworth, Lorin Maazel
  • Redbook's Picture of the Month: "Appointment for Love" as Selected by Douglas W. Churchill
  • What's On Your Mind?
  • Redbook's Records of the Month by Deems Taylor
  • Book Suggestions for December by Harry Hansen
  • Redbook's Film Selections for All the Family

    • DEPARTMENTS:

  • Full Moon by Angelo Patri
  • Redbook's Camp and School Directory