1943/05 -- Cover design by Wilhelm Cushman - Photograph by James Abbe, Jr.

Contents as taken from the contents page and paging through the issue:

NOVEL COMPLETE IN THIS ISSUE:

  • Intimate Strangers by Mildred Cran and illustrated by Al Parker
  • FICTION:

  • Navy Nurse -- Part 1 of 5 by Gladys Taber and illustrated by Lt. Jon Whitcomb U.S.N.R.
  • Life Can Be Skunky by Sarah Lorimer and illustrated by Robert O. Reid
  • Sorrow Acre by Isak Dinesen
  • It's a Wise Child by Anne Hall and illustrated by R.G. Harris
  • Journey Proud by Gene Henry and illustrated by Arthur William Brown
  • Survival -- Part 4 of 6 -- by Phyllis Bottome and illustrated by Andrew Loomis
  • SPECIAL FEATURES:

  • A War For What? by Dorothy Thompson
  • Junior Home Nurses by Betty Hannah Hoffman
  • For 40,000,000 Reasons by Beatrice Blackmar Gould
  • The Teacher Looks at Delinquency by Samuel Tenenbaum
  • If You Ask Me by Eleanor Roosevelt
  • College on $300 a Year by Paul Popenoe
  • How America Lives
  • Meet the Lusks, of Avon, Connecticut
  • Child-Training Rules and Temper Tantrums by Leslie B. Hohman, M.D.
  • You Can Help Avert a Paper Shortage
  • GENERAL FEATURES:

  • Our Readers Write Us
  • Doctor's Orders -- The Sub-Deb by Elizabeth Woodward
  • Your Men in Uniform
  • Fifty Years Ago in the Journal
  • Journal About Town
  • Reference Library
  • Ask Any Woman by Marcelene Cox
  • This Can Be America - "Practical Men" by Struthers Burt
  • Fun to Make -- Gay Little Party Napkins
  • Are You Right About Love and Marriage by Donald A. Laird
  • This Is a Food-Waster by Munro Leaf
  • Diet in Pregnancy by Dr. Herman N. Bundesen
  • Diary of Domesticity by Gladys Taber
  • FASHIONS AND BEAUTY:

  • Stars in Your Wardrobe by Wilhela Cushman
  • Trousseau for a Day by Wilhela Cushman
  • Good_Neighborhood Policy by Dawn Crowell
  • Sewing Means Saving by Ruth Mary Packard
  • Hands At Work by Louise Paine Benjamin
  • INTERIOR DECORATING AND GARDENING:

  • Gardens Off the Ground by Richard Pratt
  • No Priorities in Antiques by Henrietta Murdock
  • A Garden to Get In by Richard Pratt
  • The Summer Campaign by The Gardener's Assistant
  • FOOD AND HOMEMAKING:

  • Fisherman's Luck by Ann Batchelder
  • Line a Day by Ann Batchelder
  • Thrifty Ways for War Days by Margaret Davidson
  • Something Can Be Done by Margaret Davidson
  • The Lusks Can As They Grow by Louella G. Shouer
  • Follow the Fruit Parade by Louella G. Shouer
  • Main Dishes on Your Budget by Louella G. Shouer
  • POETRY:

  • The American Way of Life by Jan Struther
  • Copycats by W.E. Farbstein
  • What Is In Water? by Glenn Ward Dresbach
  • Women Mending by Nelle Graves McGill
  • Defense Worker by Janet Moore
  • Cockade by Agnes Yarnell
  • 166 pages plus covers inside this oversized magazine