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1956-08-31 Colliers Magazine Contents

1956/08/31 — Cover features Bert Lahr

Contents as follows:

ARTICLES:

  • Bert Lahr – What Every Candidate Should Know
  • Our Crowded Sky by Theodore H. White tells the story of air travel from the Jenny to the Jet
  • Russia’s Edge in Jetliners by James J. Haggerty, Jr.
  • The Magic Fog by Robert O’Brien is about fog in San Francisco
  • Those Efficient Europeans by Robert Bendiner
  • Now: Man-Made Virus by Milton Silverman

    • FAMILY LIVING

  • Style – In the Softening Process
  • Treats – Up to New Tricks
  • Living Rooms – Three Designers, Three Points of View
  • Clothes – The Fair Lady Look

    • SHORT STORIES

  • “Revolt in Suburbia” — The Short Short Story — by John Keasler with illustration by Aurelius Battaglia
  • “Claudie, Friend of Phlox by Dillon Anderson and illustrated by Robert Bugg

    • SERIAL

  • “Something Fishy” — Part 1 of 2 — by P.G. Wodehouse and illustrated by Ronald Searle

    • FEATURES:

  • Appointment with O’Hara by John O’Hara – Page includes small color photo of 22 year old Brigitte Bardot
  • Collier’s Credits by Jerome Beatty, Jr.
  • Letters
  • 48 States of Mind by Walter Davenport
  • Collier’s Comment