1944/02 -- Cover design "Lady With Red Hair" by Bradshaw Crandell
Contents taken from the index and from paging through the issue are as follows:

NOVELETTE:

  • Since You've Been Away by Gertrude Schweitzer and illustrated by Perry Peterson

    • EIGHT SHORT STORIES:

  • Sailor, Take Care! by Royal Brown and illustrated by Earl Cordrey
  • I'm a Stranger Here Myself! by Matt Taylor and illustrated by George Hughes
  • Lost and Found by Rita Weiman and illustrated by Tom Lovell
  • Care: Fleet Postmaster by Lindsay Neal
  • Return Engagement--The Lieutenant and the Wac by Mary Hastings Bradley and illustrated by Michael
  • Situation Well in Hand by Vina Delmar and illustrated by Phil Dormont
  • Dance Program by Faith Baldwin and illustrated by Alex Ross
  • The Ghost of Freeman Clarke by Katherine Albert and illustrated by Barbara Schwinn

    • TWO SERIALS:

  • The Real Thing -- Part I -- by Pearl S. Buck with painting by Hardie Gramatky and illustrated by Pruett Carter
  • Boardwalk -- Conclusion -- by Libbie Block and illustrated by Alfred Parker

    • EIGHT ARTICLES:

  • The Cosmopolite of the Month: Nancy Love by Morton Thompson
  • What's New in New York by George Jean Nathan
  • Night Fighter Ace by Joseph Wechsberg
  • Home-Front Casualty List by Harry T. Brundidge
  • The Story Behind Italy's Surrender by Clark Lee
  • The Defeat of Democracy by John Newton Baker
  • D.L. + YOU = $200,000,000 by Eleanor Harris is about Dorothy Lamour
  • Doctors on the Fighting Fronts by Albert Q. Maisel

    • EIGHT SPECIAL FEATURES:

  • What's Going On by F.W.
  • Cosmopolitan's Clothes Horse by Hinda Gould
  • Elmer Squee Takes a Pet to Sea by Lt. Richard L. Brooks, USNR
  • The Quiet One by Margaret Cousins
  • The Cosmopolitan Family Quiz
  • The Silver Star by Donald E. Keyhoe
  • New Pictures You'll Want to See
  • Educational Guide

    • COSMOPOLITAN PREVIEW:

  • "While We Still Live" by Helen MacInnes and illustrated by Fred Ludekens

    • THE COMPLETE BOOK-LENGTH NOVEL:

  • Never Forget Spring by Margaret Weymouth Jackson and illustrated by Al Moore