1942/09 - Cover illustrated by Alex Ross

Contents are as follows:

FICTION:
SHORT STORIES:

  • "The Clinging Oak" by Margaret Lee Runbeck
  • "A Dance Remembered" by Margaret Cousins
  • "What Mrs. Thomas Said" by Thyra Samter Winslow
  • "The Meeting" by Edward Stevenson with large color illustration by Norman Rockwell spreading the top half of two pages
  • "Lazy Gal" by Gordon Malherbe Hillman
  • "Two by Two" by Mary O'Hara

    • SERIALS:

  • "Never Too Late" -- Part 1 of 2 -- by Vina Delmar
  • "First Time Alone" -- Part 2 of 2 -- by Edmund Ware

    • SPECIAL ARTICLES:

  • How Some Children Are Taught Music by George Marek
  • You're Public by Kay Riley
  • Letters from Camp by Margaret Sangster
  • My Snapshot Advice to Parents by Ruth Nichols
  • The Instinct for Happiness by Countess Waldeck
  • Can You Learn Another Language Quickly? by Howard Whitman
  • If You Were Mrs. Elmer Davis by Nanette Kutner
  • Footnotes Only by Katharine Brush
  • Why You Need a Birth Certificate by Victoria Case
  • How Well Do You Know the Comics? by Vernon Pope
  • What Goes on at the Bide-A-Wee Home by The Staff
  • I've Been in Australia by Lucille Gordon
  • What I Wish I'd Learned in School by Frances Aves Smith
  • Teens of Our Times by Helen Wright
  • FASHIONS:
    Edited by Martha Stout
  • THE BEAUTY CLINIC:
    Edited by Ruth Murrin
  • THE STUDIO:
    Edited by Dorothy Draper
  • THE INSTITUTE:
    Edited by Katharine Fisher
  • GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BUREAU:
  • BABIES, NEEDLEWORK:

    • FOR THE CHILDREN

  • Bambi - Part 1 - by Walt Disney - A single page, about half of which is an illustration
  • Yoomee by James Swinnerton
  • BETWEEN THE BOOK ENDS - POETRY:
    Conducted by Ted Malone