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1956-07-06 Colliers Magazine Contents

1956/07/06 — Cover features the Yul Brynner

Contents as follows:

ARTICLES:

  • Why Women Live Longer Than Men by Leonard Engel
  • The Pilgrims by David Eisenhower – 4 pages loaded with drawings in crayon by the President’s grandson
  • Upsetting the Red Timetable
  • Yul Brynner by Joel Sayre — 6 pages, loaded with photos, many in color
  • Family Here Lives in the Polo Grounds by Tom Meany
  • Catfish Derby by Pete Barrett
  • The Mormon Trek: Oredeal by Handcart by Wallace Stegner with full-page illustration by Thomas Vroman – 8 page article including the Vroman page plus another full-page illustration, plenty of text by Stegner though

    • SHORT STORIES

  • “Operation Grandson” — The Short Short Story — by Ray Wagner
  • “De Lucie: Marriage Counselor” by Margaret Chase and illustrated by Richard Hook
  • “That Others May Live” by Elliott Arnold

    • SERIAL

  • “Old Yeller” — Conclusion — by Fred Gipson and illustrated by C.E. Monroe, Jr.

    • FEATURES:

  • Appointment with O’Hara by John O’Hara
  • Collier’s Credits by Jerome Beatty
  • Class Reunion by Edwin Lepper
  • Letters
  • 48 States of Mind by Walter Davenport
  • Collier’s Comment

    • FAMILY LIVING

  • Stripes Forever
  • Salads and Swizzles
  • The Mahogany Veneer
  • The Trend Is To Comfort
  • Barbecuing – Al Fresco or Fiasco?
  • Full-page ad for Smirnoff Vodka features color image of Marcel Marceau