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1950-12 Woman’s Home Companion Magazine Contents

1950/12 — Cover photograph by Henry Dravneek
Contents taken from the index and from paging through the issue are as follows:

FICTION:

  • Come Down and See Me Sometime by Marlise Johnston and illustrated by Frederic Varady
  • The Little Noel (Novelette) by William Joyce Cowen and illustrated by Tom Lovell

  • The Balance Wheel — Part 3 of 4 — by Taylor Caldwell and illustrated by Walter Skor

  • The Girl Who Would Be True by Marian Sims and illustrated by Robert Hilbert

    • NON-FICTION SPECIAL:

  • The Lively Art of Loving — Part 1 of 2 — by Andre Maurois

    • ARTICLES:

  • What You Can Do, Personally, to Stop Communism by Howard Whitman
  • Money Making at Home by Priscilla Jaquith
  • Battle Station by Toni Taylor

  • He Could Be Your Child’s Best Friend by Miriam Zeller Gross
  • Dear Sam: Do You Remember? by Frances (Mrs. Samuel) Goldwyn

    • FEATURES:

  • Want to Be Surprised at Christmas?
  • Hollywood by Philiip T. Hartung
  • Companionably Yours
  • Your Shopping Campanion by Maxine Rhody

    • Plus several Companion regular features including articles under the headings of Fashions, Home Service Center, Good Lucks, Children, Homemaking, Picture Companion.

    1941-11 Woman’s Home Companion Magazine Contents

    1941/11 — Cover photograph by Victor Keppler
    Contents taken from the index and from paging through the issue are as follows:

    FICTION:

  • Glamour by Allene Corliss and illustrated by Jon Whitcomb

  • Michael’s Girl — Part 2 of 6 — by Sophie Kerr and illustrated by Andrew Loomis
  • Love, American Plan by Alec Rackowe and illustrated by Edwin Georgi
  • The Pay-Off by D.D. Beauchamp and illustrated by Tom Lovell
  • Johnny’s So Long at the Fair — Part 3 of 5 — by Nelia Gardner White and illustrated by Mario Cooper

  • Another Baby by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding and illustrated by C.E. Chambers
  • Vienna Child by Mildred Walker

    • SPECIAL FEATURES:

  • I Lived in Occupied Greece by Betty Wason
  • Killers on Wheels by Arthur Bartlett
  • They Like Their School by Dorothy Dunbar Bromley
  • Keeping Up with Hollywood by Kay Mulvey with photo of Ruby Stevens
  • Happy Thanksgiving by Anne Bryan McCall
  • Inside Out by High Jinks

    • Plus several the Companion Way articles and features

    1942-04 Woman’s Home Companion Magazine Contents

    1942/04 — Cover photograph by Victor Keppler
    Contents taken from the index and from paging through the issue are as follows:

    FICTION:

  • Say It With Saucepans, Maybe by Sophie Kerr and illustrated by Michael
  • Caribbean Conspiracy — Part 1 of 6 — by Brenda Conrad and illustrated by Tom Lovell
  • Tomorrow’s Wife by Mary Freels Rosborough and illustrated by Pruett Carter
  • Love Can Wait by Lester Atwell and illustrated by Harry Anderson
  • The Pink Camellia — Part 3 of 6 — by Temple Bailey and illustrated by Edwin Georgi
  • Janey Plays An Ace by Elizabeth Dean and illustrated by Donald Teague

  • A British Subject by Roland Pertwee and illustrated by Walter Baumhofer

    • SPECIAL FEATURES:

  • In the Argentine Way by Ada Peacock
  • Young America Does Its Share
  • The Listening Post by John Dos Passos
  • Keeping Up With Hollywood by Kay Mulvey with photo of Bob Hope

  • How Is Your Hearing? by Agnes Rothery
  • Inside Out by Ticker A.M.
  • Miracles from Milk by Katharine Smith

    • 1933-11 Woman’s Home Companion Magazine Contents

    1933/11 — Cover design by William P. Welsh
    Contents taken from the index and from paging through the issue are as follows:

  • Editorial
  • Mrs. Roosevelt’s Page

    • STORIES:

  • “Two Women” by Pearl S. Buck and illustrated by Malthe Hasselriis
  • “Simple Enough” by Kathleen Norris and illustrated by Robert Fawcett
  • “Diamonds Among Friends” by Alice Duer Miller and illustrated by Frederick T. Chapman
  • “Solution” by Theodore Dreiser and illustrated by Pruett Carter

  • “Stay Out of My Life” — Part 2 — by Sophie Kerr and illustrated by Ray Prohaska
  • “The Bonfire” — Conclusion — by Dorothy Canfield and illustrated by John Alonzo Williams
  • “When Youth Is Beautiful” by Booth Tarkington and illustrated by Norman Rockwell
  • “Advice, Ltd.” — Part 3: The Listening Lady — by E. Phillips Oppenheim and illustrated by Roy F. Spreter

    • SPECIAL ARTICLES:

  • A Comedian Sees the World — Part 3 by Charles Chaplin

  • Sixty Years After by Allan Nevins and illustrated by C.B. Falls
  • Toys for All Ages by Adele McKinnie and illustrated by Maginel Wright Barney
  • “I Want to Understand” by Anne Bryan McCall

    • POETRY:

  • “Not So Far as the Forest” by Edna St. Vincenet Millay

    • GOOD LOOKS:

  • It’s Easier Now by Hazel Rawson Cades and illustrated by William P. Welsh
  • New Wrinkles reported by Gadabout and illustrated by the Baldwins

    • GARDENING:

  • Garden Books by Grace Tabor

    • INTERIOR FURNISHINGS:

  • Small Halls and Stairs by Hope Hammond with drawings by Harry Richardson

    • FOOD:

  • Thanksgiving Dinner by Alice Bradley
  • If Your Family Won’t Eat by Nell B. Nichols

  • The Recipe of the Month by Nell B. Nichols
  • Something New Every Day in November by Nell B. Nichols

    • FASHIONS:

  • A New Fashion Code by Ethel Holland Little
  • The Fashion Lookout
  • Holiday Patterns

  • To Wear or to Give
  • Make Your Own

    • EMBROIDERY:

  • Polka Dots Are Popular
  • Gifts to Embroider
  • Big and Little Sister by M. Khrabroff
  • Peasant Pincushion

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • The Tower Room by Anne Bryan McCall
  • Keeping Posted by Katharine Riggs
  • Better Babies
  • The Pin Money Club
  • “Dear Editor”
  • Companion Service Club
  • Index to Advertisers

    • 1936-03 Woman’s Home Companion Magazine Contents

    1936/03 — Cover design by Edwin Georgi
    Contents taken from the index and from paging through the issue are as follows:

  • Editorial

    • STORIES:

  • “Come of Age” by Grace Sartwell Mason and illustrated by W. Emerton Heitland
  • “Dead Reckoning” by Louis Paul and illustrated by Donald Teague
  • “Still Pond” — Part 1 — by Frances Noyes Hart and illustrated by Leslie Saalburg
  • “Only the Brave” by Price Day and illustrated by Wallace Morgan
  • “Eyewitness” by Pauline Partridge and illustrated by Alfred Parker
  • “The Exile” — Conclusion — by Pearl Buck and illustrated by John Alan Maxwell
  • “First Love” by Roland Pertwee and illustrated by Walter Biggs
  • “There’s Only One” — Part 4 — by Sophie Kerr and illustrated by Charles DeFeo

    • SPECIAL ARTICLES:

  • How Progressive Are You? by Anne Bryan McCall
  • Women Business-builders by Alice C. Weitz and illustrated by Robert Gellert
  • An Adventure in Business by John Rhys and illustrated by David Hendrickson
  • Sunlight and a Helathy Sinus by Wendell C. Phillips, M.D. and illustrated by John H. Crosman
  • A Bookshelf for Mothers by Harriet Anderson
  • The Handicapped Child by Frank Howard Richardson, M.D.
  • Better Players, Better Bridge by Louis H. Watson
  • Answers to Bridge Statements
  • How to Make Children Like You by Ethel A. Moynahan

    • POETRY:

  • “The Housewife’s Song” by Elizabeth Coatsworth

    • FASHIONS:

  • Introducing Companion-Butterick Patterns by Ethel Holland Little
  • One Suit Can Make a Spring Wardrobe
  • Under Your Coat
  • Country and Town Clothes
  • Distinction After Fifty
  • Styles in the Stores by Ethel Holland Little
  • Singing in the Rain by Marjorie Howard

    • GARDENING:

  • A Fountain for Plants by Margaret Goldsmith

  • Massed Boundaries, Open Centers by Grace Tabor

    • KNITTING AND CROCHET:

  • Chin Chokers
  • The Famous Afghan of Wimpole Street

    • GOOD LOOKS:

  • Manuel of Good Looks: The Care of the Hands by Hazel Rawson Cades
  • Give a Hand to Gadabout, illustrated by The Baldwins

    • HOUSEBUILDING:

  • Their Own Tennis Clubhouse by Ethel Sparks
  • A French Colonial House by Margaret Goldsmith and Daniel M.C. Hopping

    • INTERIOR DECORATION:

  • With Due Consideration by Virginia Hamill

    • FOOD:

  • Busy Day Meals by Mrs. Forrest Spaulding
  • March Food Calendar by Nell B. Nichols
  • Mrs. Nichols Reports

    • ENTERTAINMENT:

  • More Do it Yourself Parties

    • HOUSEHOLD:

  • The Laundry in the Home Service Center by Ada Bessie Swain
  • Keeping Posted by Katharine Riggs
  • A Place for Everything

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • The Tower Room by Anne Bryan McCall

  • Good Citizenship by Anna Steese Richardson
  • Better Babies
  • The Pin Money Club
  • Index to Advertisers
  • Ask the Companion
  • “Dear Editor”
  • Looking Backward by Dorothy Blake

    • 1938-09 Woman’s Home Companion Magazine Contents

    1938/09 — Cover Design by Neysa McMein

    Contents include:
    FICTION:

  • “Strawstack” — Part 1 of 6 by Dorothy Cameron Disney and illustrated by Robert Fawcett
  • “Fate on Summer Street — Part 5 of 6 — by Katharine Dos Passos and illustrated by Frederick Chapman
  • “Night and Morning” by Harry Klingsberg and illustrated by Nicholas Riley
  • “First Day” by Margaret Cousins and illustrated by Lucile Patterson Marsh
  • “Here I Stay” — Conclusion by Elizabeth Coatsworth and illustrated by Harold von Schmidt
  • “The Born Bachelor” by Dorothy Thomas and illustrated by John Gannam
  • “Night Must End” — Conclusion — by Margaret Price and illustrated by Roy Spreter

    • SPECIAL FEATURES:

  • Editorial
  • Ten Thousand Houses by Tyler Stewart Rogers
  • The Oxford Group – What Is It? by Anna Steese Richardson – Appx. 1-1/4 pages, all text
  • By Tourist Sleeper to the Southwest by Marion Sanford and illustrated by Garrett Price
  • Painting: Morning Glory by Georgia O’Keefe
  • Travel Tips
  • Consumer Relations
  • Tower Room: Psychology of Opportunity by Anne Bryan McCall

    • THE COMPANION WAY:

  • Features under the headings: Homemaking Departments – Home Service Center – Good Looks – Fashion Department

    • 1933-05 Woman’s Home Companion Magazine Contents

    1933/05 — Cover Design by Maud Tousey Fangel

    Contents include:
    FICTION:

  • “Arm in Arm” by Frank Condon and illustrated by James W. Williamson
  • “The Lost Aunt” by Theodora DuBois and illustrated by Mario Cooper
  • “Father’s Day” by Grace Sartwell Mason and illustrated by John H. Crossman
  • “Under the Velvet Umbrella” by Harriet Welles and illustrated by Donald Teague
  • “Angel in the House” — Part 2 by Kathleen Norris and illustrated by Pruett Carter
  • “Money Flies” by Paul Deresco Augsburg and illustrated by James W. Earley
  • “The Heart Compelled” — Conclusion by Samuel-Jesse Warshawsky and illustrated by John Gannam

    • SPECIAL ARTICLES:

  • Looking Ahead by Walter Millis and illustrated by Robert Foster
  • Your Child’s Diet by Roger H. Dennett, M.D., D.Sc. and illustrated by Lucille Patterson Marsh
  • Vacations Without Overhead by Anna Steese Richardson and illustrated by Maginel Wright Barney
  • If Marriage Goes on the Rocks by Anne Bryan McCall
  • Good Manners and Good Business by Elizabeth Gregg MacGibbon and illustrated by Orson Lowell

    • OTHER ARTICLE HEADINGS:

  • Garden – Housebuilding – Food – Household – Interior Furnishings – Good Looks – Fashions – Embroidery – Travel – Other Departments
  • Full-page black & white ad from Ferls-Naptha includes appx. half-page illustration of the Headless Horseman chasing down Ichabod Crane, illustrated inside a pumpkin shaped border

    • 1938-05 Woman’s Home Companion Magazine Contents

    1938/05 — Cover Design by William P. Welsh

    Contents include:
    FICTION:

  • “Fate on Summer Street” — Part 1 of 6 — by Katharine Dos Passos and illustrated by Frederick Chapman
  • “Hit or Miss” by Margaret Weymouth Jackson and illustrated by Alfred Parker
  • “Here I Stay” — Part 1 of 5 — by Elizabeth Coatsworth and illustrated by Harold Von Schmidt
  • “Return Engagement” by Frances Park and Harrison Dowd and illustrated by Robert Fawcett
  • “Night Must End” — Part 2 of 6 — by Margaret Price and illustrated by Roy Spreter
  • “The Duchess” by Nick Boddie Williams and illustrated by Henry Raleigh
  • “Partly by Steamer” by Frank Condon and illustrated by James Williamson

    • SPECIAL FEATURES:

  • Editorial
  • Pointers on Pets by Robert S. Lemmon and illustrated by B.F. Dolbin
  • My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is by Harriet Anderson
  • Who is a Good Citizen? by Anna Steese Richardson
  • Play Places for Children by Frank Howard Richardson, M.D. and illustrated by Dorothea Warren
  • New Jobs for the Future by Harold F. Clark and Carl Norcross and illustrated by Edward A. Wilson

    • ,li>$1200 a Year for Everything by Elena Welles and illustrated by Stanley Ekman

  • Insurance for Education by Seymour A. Sutorius
  • Balance and Personality by Anne Bryan McCall
  • The Tower Room
  • Good Citizenship

    • THE COMPANION WAY:

  • Features under the headings: Homemaking Departments – Home Service Center – Good Looks – Fashion Department

    • 1933-09 Woman’s Home Companion Magazine Contents

    1933/09 — Cover Design featuring Charlie Chaplin by William P. Welsh

    Contents include:
    STORIES:

  • “He Always Fell In Love With His Nurse” by Evelyn Gill Klahr and illustrated by Al Parker
  • “Spilled Milk” by Will Goodail and illustrated by W.E. Heitland
  • “No Other Gods” by Willa Roberts and illustrated by Ray Prohaska
  • “The Bonfire” — Part 4 — by Dorothy Canfield and illustrated by John Alonzo Williams
  • “Pop Bigelow’s Blessings” by Norman Matson and illustrated by Wallace Morgan
  • “Angel in the House” – Conclusion by Kathleen Norris and illustrated by Pruett Carter

    • SPECIAL ARTICLES:

  • A Comedian Sees the World — Part 1 by Charlie Chaplin — About 6-1/2 pages of text total spread over 9 pages – No photos of Chaplin, but illustrations by Shapi
  • Your Child’s Speech by Frank Howard Richardson, M.D. and illustrated by Maginel Wright Barney
  • Rosemary Road by Harriet Welles and illustrated by Malthe Hasselriis
  • And Still They Grow by Anna Steese Richardson
  • As Others See Us by Anne Bryan McCall

    • OTHER ARTICLE HEADINGS:

  • Poetry – Interior Furnishings – Gardening – Embroidery – Housebuilding – Food – Fashions – Good Looks – Other Departments

    • 1938-04 Woman’s Home Companion Magazine Contents

    1938/04 — Cover Design by Leon Carroll

    Contents include:
    FICTION:

  • “Don’t Talk to Actors” by Patricia Collinge and illustrated by James W. Williamson
  • “Night Must End” — Part 1 of 6 — by Margaret Price and illustrated by Roy Spreter
  • “None So Blind” by John Fante and illustrated by Earle B. Winslow
  • “Paris Is Like That” by Gil Meynier and illustrated by Floyd Davis
  • “Finder’s Luck” by Laurie Hillyer and illustrated by Gladys Rockmore Davis
  • “Reprieve” by Robert Hyde and illustrated by Wallace Morgan
  • “Adventure with Women” — Conclusion by Sophie Kerr and illustrated by Nicholas Riley

    • SPECIAL FEATURES:

  • Editorial
  • Psychology Tells Your Fortune by Anne Bryan McCall
  • Food for Stars by Laura Benham
  • Sweet Waters of the South by Katharine Dos Passos and illustrated by Adolph Treidler
  • America’s Defenses by Mauritz A. Hallgren and illustrated by Herbert Paus
  • Play Production Festival by Anna Steese Richardson
  • Buying Hosiery by Margaret Dana
  • Bowl and Keep Fit by Paul W. Kearney
  • Books for Bird-Lovers by Harriet Anderson
  • This Is the Way I Spend My Money – Illustrated by Herbert Paus
  • The Voice of Inexperience by Florence Carroll Atwater
  • Good Citizenship
  • The Tower Room

    • THE COMPANION WAY:

  • Features under the headings: Homemaking Departments – Home Service Center – Good Looks – Fashion Department

    • 1933-06 Woman’s Home Companion Magazine Contents

    1933/06 — Cover Design by Will Hollingsworth

    Contents include:
    FICTION:

  • “The Bonfire” — Part 1 by Dorothy Canfield and illustrated by John Alonzo Williams
  • “The Yankee Fox” by Stephen Vincent Benet and illustrated by James M. Preston
  • “You Pay As You Go” by Florence Brent Thompson and illustrated by W.E. Heitland
  • “Men of Power” by Charles Morrow Wilson and illustrated by Eben Given
  • “The Blunderer” by Duncan Norton-Taylor and illustrated by Wallace Morgan
  • “Angel In the House” — Part 3 — By Kathleen Norris and illustrated by Pruett Carter

    • SPECIAL ARTICLES:

  • Letters Parents Write Me by Frank Howard Richardson, M.D. and illustrated by Frances Tipton Hunter
  • After Prohibition What? by William G. Shepherd and illustrated by Ugo Mochi
  • Cutting Local Taxes by Anna Steese Richardson and illustrated by Howard W. Willard
  • Do You Think for Yourself? by Anne Bryan McCall

    • OTHER ARTICLE HEADINGS:

  • Good Looks – Food – Embroidery – Fashions – Garden – Housebuilding – Interior Furnishings – Other Departments

    • 1945-11 Woman’s Home Companion Magazine Contents

    1945/11 — Cover photograph of Barbara Britton and Baby Diane DuBois by Mead-Maddick
    Contents taken from the index and from paging through the issue are as follows:

    SHORT NOVEL:

  • The Satin Circus by Ann Chidester and illustrated by Edwin Georgi

    • STORIES:

  • Remembered Laughter by Viola Paradise and illustrated Frederic Varady
  • A Kiss in the Kitchen by Gina Allen and illustrated by Ray Prohaska
  • Dream-up Girl by Dwight Hutchison
  • The Cad by Bentz Plagemann and illustrated by Ben-Hur Baz
  • Love Me, Love Vanilla by Eunice Lee Caesar and illustrated by Floyd Davis

    • SERIAL:

  • Once in Every Lifetime — Part 2 of 2 — by Tom Hanlin and illustrated by Flora N. Smith

    • ARTICLES:

  • Stop Look and Live by Arthur Bartlett
  • You’ll Be Hearing Them
  • Let’s Declare War on Chronic Disease by Albert Deutsch
  • What Do You Know About Your Figure? by Phoebe Radcliffe
  • How to Understand Russians by Alice Berezowsky
  • To an Infant — poem by Baron Ireland

    • FEATURES:

  • Companion Poll
  • Hollywood by Kay Mulvey
  • The Companion Marriage Clinic by Dr. Clifford R. Adams
  • Every Dog Has His Say — Poem by A.C. Gate

    • FASHIONS:

  • For You and Your Friends by Elizabeth Ambrose
  • Very Warm for Winter — patterns by Lucie Lyons

    • FOOD:

  • Make It a Celebration by Dorothy Kirk
  • It’s a Twosome
  • Just a Minute!
  • Your Cereal Number by Margaret Deeds
  • Food Calendar by Nell B. Nichols
  • A Bird at Its Best by Doris Tisdale

    • HOME PLANNING:

  • One House: Two Prices
  • One Room: Two Ways by Anne Landor
  • One Kitchen: Budget or de Luxe by Elizabeth Beveridge

    • HOMEMAKING:

  • Santa Claus Is Coming by Florence R. Casey
  • Plan to Be Sure by Harriet Burket
  • Set a Spotless Table
  • How Do you Do, Junior? by Lois Howard
  • Christmas Wouldn’t Be Christmas

    • GOOD LOOKS:

  • How to Get a Good Part in Hollywood by Hazel Rawson Cades

    • JUNIOR COMPANION:

  • Teens Take to Their Toes by Charlotte Barclay
  • Dancing in the Dark by Mary Parker
  • What’s New?
  • Come Winter — Junior Fashions by Eve Hatch

    • 1945-12 Woman’s Home Companion Magazine Contents

    1945/12 — Cover photograph of Gale Storm by Mead-Maddick
    Contents taken from the index and from paging through the issue are as follows:

    SHORT NOVEL:

  • The Pearl of the World by John Steinbeck and illustrated by John Alan Maxwell — This is the first publication of the Steinbeck classic, “The Pearl” — We are proud to be the first to publish John Steinbeck’s exceptionally moving and tender short novel, The Pearl of the World — Full-page John Alan Maxwell illustration is shown towards the bottom of this listing

    • NOVELETTE:

  • The Iron Stag by Catharine Whitcomb and illustrated by Ray Prohaska

    • STORIES:

  • She’ll Never Have a Penny When She’s Old by Marlise Johnston and illustrated by Thornton Utz
  • The Pie that Said Hello by Alice Farnham and illustrated by Ben-Hur Baz
  • Wherever You Are by Dorothea Malm and illustrated by Edwin Georgi
  • Emily Green’s Husband by Evelyn Murray Campbell and illustrated by Alfred Buell

    • ARTICLES:

  • Your Life in the Atomic Age by Lise Meitner
  • Aim High, Lady
  • So You Want to Go Abroad by Harold White
  • Five Days of Darkness by Helena Huntington Smith
  • When Parents Disagree by Vera Connolly

    • FEATURES:

  • Companion Poll
  • Hollywood by Kay Mulvey
  • The Companion Marriage Clinic by Dr. Clifford R. Adams
  • Every Dog Has His Say — Poem by A.C. Gate

    • GIFTS:

  • Give Them a House
  • The Right Toy by Anna W.M. Wolf
  • This Looks Like Christmas by Hazel Rawson Cades

    • FASHIONS:

  • Skirts Swirl Down by Elizabeth Ambrose
  • Get on the Party Line — patterns by Lucie Lyons
  • That $20.00 Check

    • FOOD:

  • Home for Christmas by Dorothy Kirk
  • Refrigerator Cookies by Doris Tisdale
  • Food Calendar by Nell B. Nichols
  • Here’s How
  • Just a Minute!
  • Sugarless Sweets by Margaret Deeds

    • HOMEMAKING:

  • From You to Your House by Harriet Burkett
  • Easy Entertaining
  • Saucepans Built for Speed by Elizabeth Beveridge
  • Two hands Are Better Than One by Arlean Pattison
  • Daddy’s Here! by Anna W.M. Wolf
  • Coming Up!

    • JUNIOR COMPANION:

  • We Asked the Boys by Eve Hatch
  • Under the Mistletoe by Hazel Rawson Cades
  • What’s New

  • Cooking on Ice by Mary Parker
  • Looking for Lyrics by Dorothy Brigstock

    • 1941-06 Woman’s Home Companion Magazine Contents

    1941/06 — Cover photograph by Victor Keppler
    Contents taken from the index and from paging through the issue are as follows:

    FICTION AND SPECIAL FEATURES:

  • Break It to Him Gently by Anne Homer Warner and illustrated by Jon Whitcomb
  • Golden Yesterdays — Part 1 of 4 — by Margart Deland and illustrated by Edwin Georgi

  • The Provider by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and illustrated by Pruett Carter

  • Arizona Sunshine – Part 3 of 6 — by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Donald Teague
  • Panama Threat — Part 4 of 6 — by Brenda Conrad and illustrated by Tom Lovell
  • Editorial
  • We Strengthen the Staff of Life by Beverly Smith

  • Our Reader Round Table
  • Are There Any Pink Elephants in Your Purse? by S.F. Porter
  • Invitation to Canada by Marion Sanford
  • Housekeeping Under Bombs by Kay McGuigan
  • Keeping Up With Hollywood by Kay Mulvey includes photo of Claudette Colbert

  • National Defense — What Can I Do for It? by Anna Steese Richardson

  • HIghway Dream Come True by Rose Lu Goldman and Richard J. Walsh

  • Tower Room by Anne Bryan McCall

    • Plus several Companion regular features including articles under the headings of Your Home, Yourself, Your Children, Your Leisure and Your Neighbors

    1942-08 Woman’s Home Companion Magazine Contents

    1942/08 — Cover photograph by Munkacsi
    Contents taken from the index and from paging through the issue are as follows:

    FICTION:

  • Emotional Edge by Marion Greene and illustrated by Frederic Varady
  • The Dollar Gold Piece — Part 1 of 6 — by Virginia Swain and illustrated by John Alan Maxwell
  • Navy Wife by Fanny Heaslip Lea and illustrated by Arthur Sarnoff
  • Dawn in China by Han Suyin and illustrated by Dean Cornwell

  • Caribbean Conspiracy — Part 5 of 6 — by Brenda Conrad and illustrated by Tom Lovell

  • From Broccoli to Spinach by Josephine Bentham and illustrated by Albert Dorne
  • Come Hither by Marguerite Eyssen and illustrated by George Evans

    • ARTICLES:

  • Editorials

  • Keeping Up With Hollywood by Kay Mulvey with photo of Jane Withers
  • “Well, Here I Am in Ireland”

    • Plus several Companion regular features including articles under the headings of Special to You from Washington, Your Daily Job, Yourself, Your Children, To Make and to Do.