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1940-06 Good Housekeeping Magazine Contents

1940/06 – Cover illustrated by Jon Whitcomb

Contents are as follows:

Fiction:

  • “A Place to Cry” by Edmund Ware and illustrated by Harry Anderson
  • “The Life That Abby Had” by Barbara Aldrich and illustrated by Mead Schaeffer
  • “Farewell Without Regret” — Part 2 of 5 — by Sarah-Elizabeth Rodger and illustrated by Tom Lovell
  • “Some Like It Blue” by Francis Swann and illustrated by George Hughes
  • “Studio Party” by Mary Hastings Bradley and illustrated by Walter Biggs
  • “Love Can be a Problem” — Part 5 of 6 — by Faith Baldwin and illustrated by Alfred Parker
  • “Take That Off, Put This On” by Marion Baxter Taylor and illustrated by Edwin Georgi
  • “How Long Do you Give Me?” by Augusta Tucker and illustrated by Harold Von Schmidt
  • “Mr. Willoughby Does Not Wish to Change” by Gladys Taber and illustrated by John Gannam

    • Special Articles:

  • A Man to Vote For by W.F. Bigelow
  • Town Hall by The Editors
  • Going Over with Girls by Henrietta Ripperger
  • Two New Heroes in the Movies by Mary Hamman
  • Music at Home by George Marek
  • Something Blue, All Right! by Kay Riley
  • Twins by Lowell Brentano
  • Blood Pressure–Why High? by Maxine Davis
  • Bingo Tonite by James Monahan
  • How to Find a New Life by Hughes Mearns

    • Special Features:

  • Open Your Eyes Tonight by Armand N. Spitz
  • How to Keep Awake While Reading by Mortimer J. Adler
  • As We Live and Breathe by Donald Culross Peattie
  • Specialty Shopping by Christopher Morley
  • The Power of Seeing Things by Donald A. Laird
  • You Must Come Up for the Weekend by Lydia Hewes
  • Manners at the Bridge Table by Josephine Culbertson
  • Why Women Buy the Wrong Things by Lillian G. Genn
  • It Was a Flop by George Martin

    • Fashions:
    Edited by Martha Stout

  • Really Rural
  • Downtown Dresses–Under $15
  • Actually–She’s Having Her Baby This Month
  • Playclothes Need Playshoes
  • Recipe for a Work Dress
  • You Can Design a Dress!
  • These Are the Winners!
  • These Won Honorable Mention
  • Wear These While You Work

    • The Studio:
    Edited by Helen Koues

  • Make Your House Comfortable in Summer
  • Don’t Let Decorating Scare You
  • Summer Lights Indoors and Out
  • Make the Most of Summer
  • Looking Cool Helps Keep You Cool
  • Make Your Winter Blanket Covers Now!

    • The Institute:
    Edited by Katharine Fisher

  • Why Vegetables Are Ruined
  • Good Fried Chicken–It’s No Trick
  • What Do you Know About Tea?
  • Cookie Quickies
  • Shirts and Shorts
  • Salmon for Summer
  • Old Refrigerators
  • How to Eat our of a Refrigerator
  • A Housecoat for Your Bread
  • 60 Recipes for Saving on Food Bills

    • The Beauty Clinic:
    Edited by Ruth Murrin

  • Sun in Your Eyes
  • Deodorants, Of Course, But How Can You Be Sure?
  • Make a Pretty Picture

    • Good Housekeeping Bureau:

  • Dr. Eddy’s Question-Box

    • Babies, Needlework:

  • Symptoms of Allergy in Your Children by Dr. Josephine H. Kenyon
  • Tat fopr Your Trousseau by Anne Orr

    • For the Children

  • Bone Trouble – Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse – A single page with a poem and 5 color illustrations
  • Canyon Kiddies by James Swinnerton

    • Between the Book Ends – Poetry:
    Conducted by Ted Malone

  • “I Like a Map!” by Cristel Hastings
  • “He Remembers a Girl in an Orchard” by Martha Banning Thomas
  • “Song of Laurel” by Allison Ross
  • “When Martha Walks” by Thomas Sugrue
  • “Surrender” by Ruth Crary Clough
  • “Just Horse” by Stan Blakeslee
  • “Lost Detours” by Ethel Romig Fuller
  • “Naming the Baby” by May Richstone
  • “Poem to Parents” by Frances Frost