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1954-10-29 Colliers Magazine Contents

1954/10/29 — The cover is credited to Al Hirschfeld and features Groucho Marx, Jack Webb, Jackie Gleason and Lucille Ball with Desi Arnaz drawn into a totem pole arrangement

Contents as follows:
ARTICLES:

  • TV Ratings: Who Knows Who’s On Top by Bill Davidson
  • Moose or Man? (Too Many Sportsmen Guess Wrong) by Alfred M. Lansing
  • Bingo Bingaman – Pro Football’s Immovable Object by Bill Fay about the Detroit Lions’ lineman
  • The Reds Hold Five Big Cards — But We Can Trump Them by Edgar Ansel Mowrer
  • Anybody Here You Know? by Sam Rosenberg
  • “How Is Mrs. Chase Today?” by Wayne Green
  • Sailing With the Shrimpers by Ben Lucien Burman
  • Napoleon Brando by Evelyn Harvey – Two pages, one a full-page color image of Marlon Brando as Napoleon (with frame around image) and on facing page a smaller but similar image of Merle Oberon as Josephine
  • Did You Stop Reading in the Third Grade? by Leonard A. Stevens

    • SPECIAL:

  • The Negro in the North – Concluding The Negro In America Today — by Alan Paton

    • SHORT STORIES:

  • “Test of a Champion” — The Short Short Story — by Roderick Lull with illustration by C.E. Monroe, Jr.
  • “Young Man in a Hurry” by Robert Paul Smith and illustrated by Lucia
  • “The Locked Jewel Case” by Dillon Anderson and illustrated by Robert Bugg
  • “Who Is Mr. Dean?” by Sidney Carroll and illustrated by J. Frederick Smith

    • SERIALS:

  • “The Big Win” — Part 2 of 3 — by Bonner McMillion and illustrated by Tom Lovell

    • FEATURES:

  • Appointment With O’Hara by John O’Hara
  • 48 States of Mind by Walter Davenport
  • Collier’s Credits by Jerome Beatty. Jr.
  • Letters
  • Driver by Stan Hunt
  • Editorials
  • Ad for Chesterfield Cigarettes on back cover features color photo of Dragnet stars Jack Webb and Ben Alexander