1942/05 - Cover illustrated by Molly McMahon

Contents are as follows:

FICTION:
SHORT STORIES:

  • "Taxi Dance" by John Marquand and illustrated by Ray Prohaska
  • "The Way a Girl Smiles" by Earl Reed Silvers and illustrated by Jon Whitcomb
  • "A Pompadour and a Bow" by George Weston and illustrated by Bob Harris
  • "David" by Margaret Lee Runbeck and illustrated by John Gannam
  • "What Son Tells Everything?" by Libbie Block and illustrated by Tom Lovell
  • NOVELETTE:

  • "You Have to Tell Someone" by Edmund Ware and illustrated by Mead Schaeffer
  • SERIALS:

  • "A Clock Striking" -- Part 1 of 2 -- by Richard Sherman and illustrated by Harry Anderson
  • "High Stakes" -- Part 2 of 2 -- by Alice Duer Miller and illustrated by Michael Dolas
  • SPECIAL ARTICLES:

  • Making Better Snapshots by Palmer Sims
  • All Jokes Aside by Kay Riley
  • Do you Know What These Musical Terms Mean by George Marek
  • Letter to My Mother by Hazel Parker
  • How Good Is Your Wartime Morale? by Floyd L. Ruch Ph.D.
  • My Husband's Habits by Helen O'Hare
  • How to Spend a Night at Home by Helen G. Cousins
  • My Parents Musn't Know by Hildegarde Dolson
  • Keep Up with Medicine
  • Your Little Angels by William Steig - Full-page, 6 drawings by Steig
  • What a Woman Magician Does by The Staff
  • Why Teachers Are Neurotic by Frances V. Rummell
  • Advice--From Me to You by Katharine Brush
  • That Hour Before the Party by Mary Hamman
  • Teens of Our Times by Helen Wright
  • FASHIONS:
    Edited by Martha Stout
  • THE INSTITUTE:
    Edited by Katharine Fisher
  • THE STUDIO:
    Edited by Helen Koues
  • THE BEAUTY CLINIC:
    Edited by Ruth Murrin
  • GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BUEREAU:
  • BABIES, NEEDLEWORK:
  • FOR THE CHILDREN

  • Yoomee by James Swinnerton
  • Donald's Garden - Walt Disney's Donald Duck - A 5-stanza poem with 5 illustrations all on a single page
  • BETWEEN THE BOOK ENDS - POETRY:
    Conducted by Ted Malone