1952/09/23 -- Cover photographs are credited as follows: Ava Gardner and Susan Hayward from 20th Century-Fox; Weymouth local football player by James Hansen; Nurse Irene Blomgren by Maurice Terrell; Senator Richard Nixon by Michael Vaccaro; Billy Williams by Wide World

Contents as taken from this issue's index are as follows:
THE NATION:

  • New York, N.Y.
  • Good for a Laugh by Bennett Cerf
  • "I WilL Devote Myself--"
  • Too Much Education? by Colgate W. Darden, Jr. as told to Virginius Dabney
  • Why Nixon Was Nominated by Victor lasky
  • Birdie and God
  • 18 Ways to Stay Alive by William Houseman
  • She's a Crystal Girl
  • Opinions Unlimited by Hubert Pryor
  • Jack Wilson's Washington

    • THE WORLD:

  • Germany's Lonely Jews by William Attwood
  • LOOK Reports

    • SPORTS:

  • Dempsey Could Flatten Today's Heavies All in One Night by Gene Tunney as told to Tim Cohane and illustrated by Willard Mullin
  • Championship High-School Football

    • ENTERTAINMENT:

  • The Snows of Kilimanjaro starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, and Susan Hayward - Movie Review
  • Ride, Billy, Ride! featuring Billy Williams

    • ART:

  • Donati

    • FASHIONS AND BEAUTY:

  • Charles James -- Designs Sofas and Redesigns Women

    • MEN'S FASHIONS:

  • This Fall ... You Will Be Walking On Air

    • FOOD AND HOME LIVING:

  • A Chair for Mira
  • A New Kind of Apple Barrel

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • LOOK Behind the Scenes

  • Letters and Pictures to the Editors
  • LOOK Applauds
  • Photoquiz
  • Photocrime
  • Full-page ad from The Watchmakers of Switzerland includes a color illustration by Norman Rockwell with a boy getting his watch inspected (illustration a little larger than half page)