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1953-10-02 Colliers Magazine Contents

1953/10/02 — The cover is credited to Frederick Siebel

Contents as follows:
ARTICLES:

  • The Soldier Who Married the Dictator by Helen Worden Erskine is about Tito’s wife
  • Anyone for Knuckle Balls? by Tom Meany with photo of Hoyt Wilhelm
  • Canada’s Great Uranium Rush by Bill Stapleton
  • What Do We Do Now About Red China? by Ernest A. Gross
  • Tootsie Role
  • The Engineers–They Have No Fears by Karl Schriftgiesser
  • Mixing the Mambo — Collier’s Color Camera is color pics of Gwen Verdon
  • “It’s Tough, Very Tough, to Buck the System” — Continuing the Plight of the Honest Cop — by Albert Deutsch
  • The Men Nobody Wanted by Bill Fay is about the Detroit Lions football team and includes a color photo spreading across the top of two pages featuring several of the players standing next to each others, includes Doak Walker and Bobby Layne

    • FICTION:

  • “The Husband Who Wouldn’t Wake Up” — The Short Short Story — by Lee Rogow with illustration by Earl Cordrey
  • “Why Tell Your Wife” by Victor Wolfson and illustrated by J. Frederick Smith
  • “The Long Out” by Charles Einstein and illustrated by John McDermott
  • “The Adventure of the Red Widow” — Another new Sherlock Holmes Story — by Adrian Conan Doyle and illustrated by Robert Fawcett — This is the last of a series of new Sherlock Holmes stories which Collier’s has published this year. These storeis will appear in a book which will be published by Random House, Inc. in Feburary 1954

    • SERIALS:

  • “The Shadows of the Images” — Part 1 of 5 — by William E. Barrett
  • “Silver Rock” — Conclusion — by Luke Short and illustrated by Tran Mawicke

    • PLUS:

  • Collier’s Credits
  • 48 States of Mind by Walter Davenport
  • Noise by Martha Blanchard
  • Letters
  • Editorials
  • Cartoons by Kate Osann, John Dirks, Bill O’Malley, John Norment, John Ruge, Jay Irving, A.F. Wiles, Ted Key, Fritz Wilkinson, Larry Reynolds, Gaspar Vaccaro, Don Tobin, Lowell Hoppes, William Von Riegen, Stan Fine, Herb Williams, Edwin Lepper, Ray Helle, J.E. Pretsch, Virgil Partch
  • “World Series, USA” ad illustrated by John Falter, for the United States Brewers Foundation