1955-03-04 Colliers Magazine Contents

1955/03/04 — Cover featuring Gregory Peck in “Moby Dick” is credited to Frank Horvat – Willie Mays featured in top right corner of cover

Contents as follows:

ARTICLES:

Stalking the Stork by Murray Robinson

Coldest Town in America by Howard Cohn — It’s International Falls, Minnesota

Tom Meany’s 1955 Baseball Preview

Let’s Keep It 48 by Senator A.S. Mike Monroney

What’s a Nine-Letter Word Meaning Fun? by Eugene Rachlis

Do Gestures Speak Louder Than Words? by Robert L. Rosekrans

Moby Dick by Evelyn Harvey with large color photo of the climax of the movie, Gregory Peck tied down to the White Whale plus 8 more color photos of varying size, 4 pages total

Now It’s Dripless Paint by Martha Weinman

A Mine for the Jet Age by Bill Stapleton35 Questions and Answers on the Common Cold

SHORT STORIES

“The Oldest Law” — The Short Short Story by Larry Finnand illustrated by Anthony Saris

“Run Silent, Run Deep by Edward L. Beach – Beach is the author of the 1955 novel that the 1958 Clark Gable – Burt Lancaster film is based on. I’m not sure if this is the condensed version or perhaps an earlier incarnation of what would become the book, but it’s the same title, same author, with a large color illustration of a sub ermerging from the water

“Tattletale Tape” by Jack Finney and illustrated by Barbara Schwinn

“The Boy and the Girl” by Helen Bullard Rydell and illustrated by Lionel Gilbert

SERIALS

“Invasion of Privacy” — Part 2 of 4 — by Harry Kurnitz and illustrated by Joe Bowler and illustrated by Joe Bowler

FEATURES:

Appointment with O’Hara by John O’Hara

Collier’s Credits by Jerome Beatty

48 States of Mind by Walter Davenport

Letters

Unburied Treasure by Jack O’Brien

Party Politics by John Dempsey

Collier’s Comment

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