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1955-06-24 Colliers Magazine Contents

1955/06/24 — Cover featuring gorgeous shot of Grace Kelly is credited to Howell Conant

Contents as follows:

ARTICLES:

  • “Mr. Attack” Goes to Washington by Peter Kalischer is about General Maxwell Davenport Taylor
  • Turbocars by James J. Haggerty, Jr.
  • How to Stop Wiretapping — Concluding Who ELSE Is Listening? — by Bernard B. Spindel with Bill Davidson
  • Nature Is Full of Surprises (The Marvels in Our Museums) — Photographed by Arthur Lavine – 6 pages of color nature photos
  • New Magic for Playgrounds by Christpher Carter
  • Hit-and-Run — Baseball’s Perfect Play by Milton Gross with drawing by John Cullen Murphy
  • Is Experience the BEST Teacher? by Leonard A. Stevens

    • SPECIAL

  • The Key to Kelly by Evelyn Harvey — 6 pages loaded with mostly color photos of Grace Kelly including one full-page color photo and one that’s actually larger than a full page. Many beach photos.

    • SHORT STORIES

  • “Dangerous Confession” — The Short Short Story — by Poyntz Tyler and illustrated by Dom Lupo
  • “Give Him to Me” by Herbert A. Francis and illustrated by Milton Wolsky
  • “The Sermon My Father Forgot” by Hope Shelley Miller and illustrated by Stan Ekman
  • “Love on a Visa” by Hannibal Coons and illustrated by Fredric Varady

    • SERIAL

  • “Man of the West” — Conclusion — by Philip Yordan and illustrated by Edwin Dawes

    • FEATURES:

  • Appointment with O’Hara by John O’Hara
  • 48 States of Mind by Walter Davenport
  • Letters
  • Collier’s Credits by Jerome Beatty
  • Collier’s Comment
  • Two-page ad for sci-fi classic “This Island Earth” featuring a 8-inches plus high illustration spreading the two pages with a listing of national theatres playing the movie below