1945/12 - Cover illustrated by Alex Ross

Contents are as follows:

FICTION:
SHORT STORIES:

  • "The Strange Christmas Dinner" by Margaret Cousins
  • "Veronica" by David William Moore
  • "Round Trip" by Frederick Nebel
  • "The Coin" by Walter Weir
  • "The Avenger" by Gladys Schmitt

    • TWO-PART STORIES:

  • "Little White Flowers" -- Part 1 of 2 -- by Ruth Power-O'Malley
  • "The Murder in the Stork Club" -- Part 2 of 2 -- by Vera Caspary

    • ARTICLES AND FEATURES:

  • The Great Man of Music by George Marek

  • Take Your Impulse by Helene Wright
  • Assignment in Hollywood by Frank S. Nugent
  • Town Hall by The Editors
  • Keep Up With Medicine
  • Ghost of Christmas Past by Kay Riley
  • Mama and the Christmas Tradition by Kathryn Forbes
  • Good Old Limericks by Louis Untermeyer
  • Those Fake Prophecies by Anthony Standen
  • Your Man's Hat by Judith Chase Churchill
  • Memory Lane by The Staff
  • Our Sleeping Soldiers by Archbishop Francis J. Spellman
  • THE BUILDING FORUM:
    Joseph B. Mason, Director
  • THE STUDIO:
    Dorothy Draper, Director
  • FASHIONS:
    Martha Stout, Director
  • THE INSTITUTE:
    Katharine Fisher, Director
  • THE BEAUTY CLINIC:
    Ruth Murrin, Director
  • THE NEEDLEWORK ROOM:
  • THE BABY CENTER:
    Dr. Josephine H. Kenyon, Director
  • THE BUREAU:

    • THE PLAYGROUND

  • A Page for Children by Courtenay Sage