1952/08 – Cover illustrated by Alex Ross

Contents are as follows:

STORIES AND FEATURES:

Memory Lane by The Staff

Town Hall by The Editors

Assignment in Hollywood

We Take a Look at Chlorophyll by The Staff

Now There’s a New Law About Furs by Max Bachrach

“Hit and Run” – A Story of Suspense by John D. MacDonald and illustrated by Alex Ross

Lonesome with You by Libbie Block and illustrated by Coby Whitmore

The Trouble With Love by Margaret Cousins

The List by Harriett Pratt

THE INSTITUTE:
Katharine Fisher, Co-ordinator

FASHIONS:

BEAUTY:

SECURITY:

SEWING CENTER:

BABY CENTER:

STUDIO:

CHILDREN

BUILDING:

APPLIANCES AND HOME CARE:

MEDICINE AND HEALTH:

MUSIC:

TEEN-AGE:

FOOD:

AUTOMOBILES:

NEEDLEWORK ROOM:

BUREAU AND CHEMICAL LABORATORY:

TEXTILE LABORATORY:

1942/09 – Cover illustrated by Alex Ross

Contents are as follows:

FICTION:
SHORT STORIES:

“The Clinging Oak” by Margaret Lee Runbeck

“A Dance Remembered” by Margaret Cousins

“What Mrs. Thomas Said” by Thyra Samter Winslow

“The Meeting” by Edward Stevenson with large color illustration by Norman Rockwell spreading the top half of two pages

“Lazy Gal” by Gordon Malherbe Hillman

“Two by Two” by Mary O’Hara

SERIALS:

“Never Too Late” — Part 1 of 2 — by Vina Delmar

“First Time Alone” — Part 2 of 2 — by Edmund Ware

SPECIAL ARTICLES:

How Some Children Are Taught Music by George Marek

You’re Public by Kay Riley

Letters from Camp by Margaret Sangster

My Snapshot Advice to Parents by Ruth Nichols

The Instinct for Happiness by Countess Waldeck

Can You Learn Another Language Quickly? by Howard Whitman

If You Were Mrs. Elmer Davis by Nanette Kutner

Footnotes Only by Katharine Brush

Why You Need a Birth Certificate by Victoria Case

How Well Do You Know the Comics? by Vernon Pope

What Goes on at the Bide-A-Wee Home by The Staff

I’ve Been in Australia by Lucille Gordon

What I Wish I’d Learned in School by Frances Aves Smith

Teens of Our Times by Helen Wright

FASHIONS:
Edited by Martha Stout

THE BEAUTY CLINIC:
Edited by Ruth Murrin

THE STUDIO:
Edited by Dorothy Draper

THE INSTITUTE:
Edited by Katharine Fisher

GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BUREAU:

BABIES, NEEDLEWORK:

FOR THE CHILDREN

Bambi – Part 1 – by Walt Disney – A single page, about half of which is an illustration

Yoomee by James Swinnerton

BETWEEN THE BOOK ENDS – POETRY:
Conducted by Ted Malone

1942/10 – Cover illustrated by Alex Ross

Contents are as follows:

FICTION:
SHORT STORIES:

“Memo to Maggie Brown” by Marian Spitzer and illustrated by Tom Lovell

“The Temporary Death of Mrs. Ayres” by Mary Roberts Rinehart

“Another Word for Love” by Hilda Sidney

“Evelyn Kane Calls on Her Husband” by Lyon Mearson and illustrated by Harry Anderson

“Mary Osaka, I Love You” by John Fante

“Someone Who Cares” by Jessie Scott

SERIALS:

“Lady Not Alone” — Part 1 of 2 — by Katharine Brush

“Never Too Late” — Part 2 of 2 — by Vina Delmar

SPECIAL ARTICLES:

Music Books for Children by George Marek

The Crowning Glory by Kay Riley

How to Begin a Month by Irwin Edman

A Letter to Mrs. Novotny by Margaret Lee Runbeck

If You Were Mrs. George Marshall by Nanette Kutner

Three Wars Are Too Many by Booth Tarkington

Have a Good Time, Daughter by Edward L. Stokes

What a Florist Does by The Staff

A Chart on Vaccines

What to Feed Dogs in Wartime by Dr. Leon F. Whitney

Some of My Favorite Insults by William Lyons Phelps

Reading Aloud by Clifton Fadiman

Snapshot Secrets a Parent Should Know by Mary Louise Barrett

No High-School Sorority for My Daughter by Kathleen Park Bennett

Teens of Our Times by Helene Wright

Keep Up With Medicine

But Who Were They? by Helen Kelmar

FASHIONS:
Edited by Martha Stout

THE BEAUTY CLINIC:
Edited by Ruth Murrin

THE STUDIO:
Edited by Dorothy Draper

THE INSTITUTE:
Edited by Katharine Fisher

GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BUREAU:

NEEDLEWORK, BABIES:

FOR THE CHILDREN

Bambi – Part 2 – by Walt Disney – A single page, about half of which is an illustration

Yoomee by James Swinnerton

BETWEEN THE BOOK ENDS – POETRY:
Conducted by Ted Malone

1943/05 – Cover illustrated by Alex Ross

Contents are as follows:

FICTION:
SHORT STORIES:

“Beyond These Words” by Marlise Johnston

“Show Me the Town” by Barbara Aldrich and illustrated by George Hughes

“Disillusioned” by F. Hugh Herbert

“Mr. Willis Works a Miracle” by Whitfield Cook

“Hope Is Where the Heart Is” by Mosser Mauger

“Nearly Perfect” by Thyra Samter Winslow and illustrated by Robert Harris

NOVELS:

“Charm Bracelet” — Part 1 of 2 — by Katharine Brush

“The Romance of Henry Menagee” — Part 2 of 2 — by Paul Gallico

SPECIAL ARTICLES:

The Home Brunt by Kay Riley

Music Was Not Rationed by George Marek

Keep Up With Medicine

Sugar-Cured by Helene Wright

Prizes of War by Margaret Culkin Banning

What Goes On at a Costumers by Mary Hamman

If You Were Mrs. Jerome Kern by Nanette Kutner

Don’t Let Poison Gas Panic You by Paul W. Kearney

Sure Ways of Being an Old Maid by Florence Howitt

Who Uses It? by Vernon Pope

My Seventh Assisstant by Alexander Woollcott

How to Buy Art on a Shoestring by Stanley Rayfield

What’s Money? by Margaret Case Harriman

Parties I Wish I Could Have Attended by William Lyon Phelps

Safer Than a Known Way by Eleanor Barry

I Have a Pound of Dots by Deems Taylor

FASHIONS:
Edited by Martha Stout

THE BEAUTY CLINIC:
Edited by Ruth Murrin

THE STUDIO:
Edited by Dorothy Draper

THE INSTITUTE:
Edited by Katharine Fisher

NEEDLEWORK, BABIES:

FOR THE CHILDREN

The Pelican and the Snipe by Walt Disney

Yoomee by James Swinnerton

BETWEEN THE BOOK ENDS – POETRY:
Conducted by Ted Malone

GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BUREAU:

1945/12 – Cover illustrated by Alex Ross

Contents are as follows:

FICTION:
SHORT STORIES:

“The Strange Christmas Dinner” by Margaret Cousins

“Veronica” by David William Moore

“Round Trip” by Frederick Nebel

“The Coin” by Walter Weir

“The Avenger” by Gladys Schmitt

TWO-PART STORIES:

“Little White Flowers” — Part 1 of 2 — by Ruth Power-O’Malley

“The Murder in the Stork Club” — Part 2 of 2 — by Vera Caspary

ARTICLES AND FEATURES:

The Great Man of Music by George Marek

Take Your Impulse by Helene Wright

Assignment in Hollywood by Frank S. Nugent

Town Hall by The Editors

Keep Up With Medicine

Ghost of Christmas Past by Kay Riley

Mama and the Christmas Tradition by Kathryn Forbes

Good Old Limericks by Louis Untermeyer

Those Fake Prophecies by Anthony Standen

Your Man’s Hat by Judith Chase Churchill

Memory Lane by The Staff

Our Sleeping Soldiers by Archbishop Francis J. Spellman

THE BUILDING FORUM:
Joseph B. Mason, Director

THE STUDIO:
Dorothy Draper, Director

FASHIONS:
Martha Stout, Director

THE INSTITUTE:
Katharine Fisher, Director

THE BEAUTY CLINIC:
Ruth Murrin, Director

THE NEEDLEWORK ROOM:

THE BABY CENTER:
Dr. Josephine H. Kenyon, Director

THE BUREAU:

THE PLAYGROUND

A Page for Children by Courtenay Sage

1933/04 – Cover illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith

Contents are as follows:

FICTION:
SHORT STORIES:

“The Man Who Went Back” — A New Serial by Arthur Train and illustrated by E.M. Jackson

“Forgotten Stars” by Mary Derieux and illustrated by T.D. Skidmore

“The Deep Wound” by Emma-Lindsay Squier and illustrated by James E. Allen

“Grand Canary” — A Serial by A.J. Cronin and illustrated by Mead Schaeffer

“Yankee-Doodle Boy” by Florence L. Pfalzgraf and illustrated by Frederick Chapman

“No Tenant Needed” by Hazel Havermale and illustrated by William C. Hoople

“”My Man” by Monica Krawczyk and illustrated by Rose O’Neil

“Jigsaw” — A Serial by Faith Baldwin and illustrated by Tom Webb

SPECIAL ARTICLES:

Where Are Those Second Mary Pickfords? by Frederick L. Collins with photo of Janet Gaynor and then smaller pics of other possible successors over the years such as Ruth Roland and Mary Miles Minter

Greenland’s Icy Mountains by Marie Ahnighito Peary

A Letter to an Old-Fashioned Wife by Frances Parkinson Keyes

Will the Goblins Finally Get Us? by Frazier Hunt

A Few Books for the Many by Emily Newell Blair

Forty Dollars Will Start Your Garden by Elizabeth Foster Mann

STUDIO OF ARCHITECTURE AND FURNISHINGS:

SPECIAL SERVICE FEATURES

POEMS:

GOOD HOUSEKEEPING INSTITUTE
Edited by Katharine Fisher

HEALTH AND BEAUTY:
Edited by Ruth Murrin

FASHIONS
Edited by Helen Koues

1943/02 – Cover illustrated by Alex Ross

Contents are as follows:

FICTION:
SHORT STORIES:

“The Trip Down” by Catherine Hubbell and illustrated by Douglass Crockwell

“Something Like a Dream” by Frederick Nebel and illustrated by Bob Harris

“There Seems to Be a Letter” by F. Hugh Herbert and illustrated by Alfred Parker

“The Favorite Suit” by Alberta Pierson Hannum and illustrated by Jon Whitcomb

“Alone” by Bayard Kendrick and illustrated by Albert Dorne

“Do This For Me, My Darling” by Katharine Brush and illustrated by Alex Ross

NOVELS:

“The Debt” — Part 1 of 2 — by Helen Hull and illustrated by Nicholas Riley

“Without Roots” — Part 2 of 2 — by Nelia Gardner White and illustrated by Harry Anderson

SPECIAL ARTICLES:

You’ll See Her Later by Kay Riley

How Much Does an Instrument Cost? by George Marek

What Not to Think About by Marshall Sprague

On Not Visiting Places a Second Time by Irwin Edman

Why Parents Leave Home by Lester Markel

Want to Save Your Teeth? by Maxine Davis

Twenty Years Ago by Vernon Pope

On Reading Mysteries by Clifton Fadiman

If You Were Mrs. Norman Rockwell by Nanette Kutner

How to Say Good-bye by Howard Whitman

Everybody Worked at Our House by James Ames Wilson

How to Pass an Examination by James Crawford Watt

To a Woman Whose Baby Was Never Born by margaret Lee Runbeck

What Goes on in a Casting Office by The Staff

Fighting Words–Who Said Them?

The Luck of Johnny Mills by Alexander Woollcott

Teens of Our Times by Helene Wright

Keep Up with Medicine

FASHIONS:
Edited by Martha Stout

THE BEAUTY CLINIC:
Edited by Ruth Murrin

THE STUDIO:
Edited by Dorothy Draper

THE INSTITUTE:
Edited by Katharine Fisher

NEEDLEWORK, BABIES:

FOR THE CHILDREN

Pluto and the Armadillo – Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse – One page

Yoomee by James Swinnerton

GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BUREAU:

BETWEEN THE BOOK ENDS – POETRY:
Conducted by Ted Malone

1942/02 – Cover illustrated by Molly McMahon

Contents are as follows:

FICTION:

“It Was a Good Marriage” by Nelia Gardner White and illustrated by Alfred Parker

“Stupendous Moment” by Elizabeth Dunn and illustrated by Earl Cordrey

“It Goes Like Music” by Libbie Block and illustrated by Michael Dolas

“I Have to Tell You Something” by Philip Wylie and illustrated by Ray Prohaska

“The Awful Day” by Mabel Brown Farwell and illustrated by Amos Sewell

NOVELETTE:

“Powder-Room Blues” by Mary Singer and illustrated by John Gannam

SERIALS:

“This Is Neda Marsh” — Part 1 of 2 — by Joseph and Adeline Marx and illustrated by Bob Harris

“The Golden Road” — Part 5 of 5 — by Eric Hatch and illustrated by Jon Whitcomb

SPECIAL ARTICLES:

What Do They Defend? by Hazel Parker

Hollywood Fanfare by Mary Hamman

The Quiz Kids’ Favorite Music by George Marek

And the Bell Told by Kay Riley

Good Housekeeping and the War by The Editors

I Wish I’d Seen by William Lyon Phelps

How to Play Gin Rummy by Dudley Courtenay

Crushes–and What to Do About Them by Frances Warfield

Home Chart on Influenza

What goes On in a Theatrical School by The Staff

To Our Baby’s Husband by Margaret Lee Runbeck

Notions Department by Katharine Brush

What Makes Females So Useless? by Howard Whitman

“Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered” by Henrietta Ripperger

FASHIONS:
Edited by Martha Stout

BABIES, NEEDLEWORK:

THE INSTITUTE:
Edited by Katharine Fisher

THE BEAUTY CLINIC:
Edited by Ruth Murrin

THE STUDIO:
Edited by Helen Koues

GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BUEREAU:

FOR THE CHILDREN

Donald’s Camera – Walt Disney’s Donald Duck – A 5-stanza poem with 5 color illustrations all on a single page

Yoomee by James Swinnerton

BETWEEN THE BOOK ENDS – POETRY:
Conducted by Ted Malone

“The Bridge” by Edgar Lee Masters

“Sarah’s Heaven” by Margaret Widdemer

1939/05 – Cover illustrated by Horace Gaffron

Contents are as follows:

The Editor’s Page: Looking Toward Tomorrow

FICTION:

“Vigil in the Night” — Part 1 of 6 — by A.J. Cronin and illustrated by Pruett Carter

“To A Brown-Eyed Girl”by Earl Reed Silvers and illustrated by Bob Harris

“Encounter With a Ghost” by Naomi Lane Babson and illustrated by Andrew Loomis

“Appointment With Tomorrow” — Part 3 of 6 — by Ursula Parrott and illustrated by Tom Lovell

“Once There Was a Girl” by Barbara Aldrich and illustrated by Jon Whitcomb

“Cockles for Tea” by Eric Knight and illustrated by Warren Baumgartner

“American Legend” — Part 6 of 6 — by Pearl Buck and illustrated by Alfred Parker

“Do You Mind?” by Charles Hoffman and illustrated by Edwin Henry

“Thicker Than Water” by Virginia Bird Martin and illustrated by Michael Dolas

“Right of Way” by Adela Rogers St. Johns and illustrated by George Howe

SPECIAL ARTICLES:

Facts and Fiction by The Staff

How This Picture Was Made by Amelia C. Beck

Family Doctor

Standing In the Place of Mother by Genevieve Parkhurst

Make Friends With Manhattan by Arthur Gordon and illustrated by Stevan Dohanos

You Have Only One Pair of Eyes by Maxine Davis

,li>A Lady Needs a Change by Henrietta Ripperger

Beauty–But Not Culture by Grace P. Smith

THE INSTITUTE:
Edited by Katharine Fisher

THE STUDIO:
Includes:

At the New York World’s Fair – Modern rooms decorated by Good Housekeeping for the Pitssburgh Plate Glass Exhibit

FASHIONS:
Edited by Helen Houes

THE BEAUTY CLINIC:
Edited by Ruth Murrin

GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BUREAU:

BABIES, NEEDLEWORK, ETC..:

FOR THE CHILDREN

Goofy and Wilbur – Walt Disney – A 5 stanza poem with 5 color illustrations all on a single page

Canyon Kiddies by James Swinnerton

POEMS:

1942/03 – Cover illustrated by Molly McMahon

Contents are as follows:

FICTION:

“Tomorrow He Comes Home” by Adela Rogers St. Johns and illustrated by Jon Whitcomb

“For Whatever Ends” by Louise Redfield Peattie and illustrated by Ray Prohaska

“Have You Heard from Tom Lately? by Faith Baldwin and illustrated by Alfred Parker

If We Had Met Before by Marion Valensi and illustrated by Tom Lovell

“The Man Who Gets Cindy” by Frances Shields and illustrated by George Hughes

NOVELETTE:

“Second Chance” by Mary Hastings Bradley and illustrated by Michael Dolas

SERIALS:

“She Accepts With Pleasure” — Part 1 of 2 — by I.A.R. Wylie and illustrated by Harry Anderson

“This Is Neda Marsh” — Part 2 of 2 — by Joseph and Adeline Marx and illustrated by Bob Harris

SPECIAL ARTICLES:

Rough Sketches by Walt Disney — 15 war propaganda sketches from Walt Disney Studios, dealing with rumors spreading and keeping quiet, fill one entire page plus a single column on another page

Wait by W.F. Bigelow

Out on Your Own by Henrietta Ripperger

We Love You Still by Kay Riley

Should I Read Books about Music? by George Marek

Commentaries by David Grayson

One War Ago by William Lyon Phelps

Women Without Men by Maxine Davis

Nothing to Brag About by Mary Hamman

Do you Tell Everything You Know? by Gelett Burgess

I Could Have Died by Katharine Brush

What A Wedding Director Does by The Staff

Do you Want to Be a Nurse? by Dorothy Dunbar Bromley

Making Better Snapshots by Palmer Sims

FASHIONS:
Edited by Martha Stout

BABIES, NEEDLEWORK:

THE INSTITUTE:
Edited by Katharine Fisher

THE STUDIO:
Edited by Helen Koues

THE BEAUTY CLINIC:
Edited by Ruth Murrin

GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BUEREAU:

FOR THE CHILDREN

Yoomee by James Swinnerton

The Art of Self-Defense – Walt Disney’s Goofy – A 5-stanza poem with 5 color illustrations all on a single page

BETWEEN THE BOOK ENDS – POETRY:
Conducted by Ted Malone

1938/08 – Cover illustrated by Horace Gaffron

Contents are as follows:

The Editor’s Page: Midsummer Madness

FICTION:

“Strange Victory” — Part 1 of 5 — by Franken Meloney and illustrated by Jay Hyde Barnum

“A Ticket to Samarkland” by Vivien R. Bretherton and illustrated by Pruett Carter

“Union Forever” by Burnham Carter and illustrated by Tom Lovell

“Illusion” by Elizabeth Sanxay Holding and illustrated by Jon Whitcomb

“Many Waters Run Deep” by Kathleen Norris and illustrated by Mead Schaeffer

“Next to My Heart” — Part 4 of 6 — by Helen Topping Miller and illustrated by Tom Webb

“The Eighth Passenger” — Part 3 of 3 — by Edison Marshall and illustrated by John Fulton

SPECIAL ARTICLES:

Facts and Fiction by Alice Booth

Love Thy Neighbor by Grace P. Smith

That’s Why the Lady Is a Belle by Marjorie Hillis

The Decency Crisis by John S. Sumner

Lily

The Case for Monogomy by Ernest R. and Gladys H. Groves

Norma Shearer Returns: The Story of Her Part in “Marie Antoinette” by Dixie Willson

Girl Goes to College by Marian Castle

THE STUDIO:

FASHIONS:
Edited by Helen Houes

THE INSTITUTE:
Edited by Katharine Fisher

THE BEAUTY CLINIC:
Edited by Ruth Murrin

GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BUREAU:

BABIES, NEEDLEWORK, ETC..:

FOR THE CHILDREN

Donald’s Cousin Gus – Walt Disney’s Donald Duck – 5-stanza poem on 1 page with color illustrations

POEMS:

1942/05 – Cover illustrated by Molly McMahon

Contents are as follows:

FICTION:
SHORT STORIES:

“Taxi Dance” by John Marquand and illustrated by Ray Prohaska

“The Way a Girl Smiles” by Earl Reed Silvers and illustrated by Jon Whitcomb

“A Pompadour and a Bow” by George Weston and illustrated by Bob Harris

“David” by Margaret Lee Runbeck and illustrated by John Gannam

“What Son Tells Everything?” by Libbie Block and illustrated by Tom Lovell

NOVELETTE:

“You Have to Tell Someone” by Edmund Ware and illustrated by Mead Schaeffer

SERIALS:

“A Clock Striking” — Part 1 of 2 — by Richard Sherman and illustrated by Harry Anderson

“High Stakes” — Part 2 of 2 — by Alice Duer Miller and illustrated by Michael Dolas

SPECIAL ARTICLES:

Making Better Snapshots by Palmer Sims

All Jokes Aside by Kay Riley

Do you Know What These Musical Terms Mean by George Marek

Letter to My Mother by Hazel Parker

How Good Is Your Wartime Morale? by Floyd L. Ruch Ph.D.

My Husband’s Habits by Helen O’Hare

How to Spend a Night at Home by Helen G. Cousins

My Parents Musn’t Know by Hildegarde Dolson

Keep Up with Medicine

Your Little Angels by William Steig – Full-page, 6 drawings by Steig

What a Woman Magician Does by The Staff

Why Teachers Are Neurotic by Frances V. Rummell

Advice–From Me to You by Katharine Brush

That Hour Before the Party by Mary Hamman

Teens of Our Times by Helen Wright

FASHIONS:
Edited by Martha Stout

THE INSTITUTE:
Edited by Katharine Fisher

THE STUDIO:
Edited by Helen Koues

THE BEAUTY CLINIC:
Edited by Ruth Murrin

GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BUEREAU:

BABIES, NEEDLEWORK:

FOR THE CHILDREN

Yoomee by James Swinnerton

Donald’s Garden – Walt Disney’s Donald Duck – A 5-stanza poem with 5 illustrations all on a single page

BETWEEN THE BOOK ENDS – POETRY:
Conducted by Ted Malone

1938/10 – Cover illustrated by Horace Gaffron

Contents are as follows:

The Editor’s Page: A Day in October

FICTION:

“The Underpup” by I.A.R. Wylie and illustrated by Ilse Shank

“The Lantern Man” by Clara Hood Rugel and illustrated by Saul Tepper

“The Town Cried Murder” — Part 2 of 6 — by Leslie Ford and illustrated by Stanley Parkhouse

“Roll Call” by Faith Baldwin and illustrated by Mead Schaeffer

“Strange Victory” — Part 3 of 5 — by Franken Meloney and illustrated by Jay Hyde Barnum

“Wait and Be Sure” by Shotwell Callvert and illustrated by Jon Whitcomb

“Salute to a Borrowed Day” by Martha Cheavens

“Next to My Heart” — Part 6 of 6 — by Helen Topping Miller and illustrated by Tom Webb

SPECIAL FEATURES:

Charmed–But Not Very by Grace P. Smith

Swing Grows Up by Larry Clinton

What If You Don’t Marry Young? by Marjorie Hillis

Facts and Fiction by Alice Booth

To Whom It May Concern by Booth Tarkington – 1 page

Shorthand by J.C. Furnas

X-Ray Marks the Spot by Henrietta Ripperger

What’s In Your Life Insurance Policy? by Elizabeth Fraser

FASHIONS:
Edited by Helen Houes

THE STUDIO:

THE INSTITUTE:
Edited by Katharine Fisher

THE BEAUTY CLINIC:
Edited by Ruth Murrin

GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BUREAU:

BABIES, NEEDLEWORK, ETC..:

FOR THE CHILDREN

Brave Little Town – Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse – 5-stanza poem on 1 page with color illustrations

Canyon Kiddies by James Swinnerton

POEMS:
Including:

“Song of the Restless” by Berton Braley

1942/06 – Cover illustrated by Molly McMahon

Contents are as follows:

FICTION:
SHORT STORIES:

“Got to See That Girl Again” by Gordon Malherbe Hillman and illustrated by Earl Cordrey

“Though I Walk through the Valley” by Naomi Lane Bobson and illustrated by Ray Prohaska

“Girl Comes Home” by Philip Wylie and illustrated by Alfred Parker

“Sleep Not, My Country” by Martha Cheavens and illustrated by Harold Von Schmidt

NOVELETTE:

“Mrs. Wilson’s Husband Goes for a Swim” by Thyra Santer Winslow and illustrated by Hardie Gramatky

SERIALS:

“Do You Take These Women?” — Part 1 of 2 — by Vina Delmar and illustrated by John Gannam

“A Clock Striking” — Part 2 of 2 — by Richard Sherman and illustrated by Harry Anderson

SPECIAL ARTICLES:

Nice Girls Go on Military Weekends by Jo Anne Healey

Making Better Snapshots by Palmer Sims

Keep Up With Medicine

On the Clothesline by Kay Riley

Music by the Enemy by George Marek

Advice to Babies Not Yet Born by Margaret Lee Runbeck

Words to Remember You If You Get Blue by Dorothy Chamberlain

What an Art Student Does by The Staff

Boyhood Recollection by Stanley M. Rinehart, Jr.

I Married My Sister Anyway by Anonymous

If You Were Mrs. Fred Allen by Nanette Kutner

Expect and Live by Manuel Komroff

Can You Tell Which Are Valuable?

Maybe It Happens in Your House by Katharine Brush

Mrs. Lane Has Herself a Day by Mary Hammon

Don’t Lift That! by Maxine Davis

Teens of Our Times by Helene Wright

Letters from Home by Frances Fenwick Hills

FASHIONS:
Edited by Martha Stout

THE INSTITUTE:
Edited by Katharine Fisher

THE STUDIO:
Edited by Helen Koues

THE BEAUTY CLINIC:
Edited by Ruth Murrin

GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BUEREAU:

BABIES, NEEDLEWORK:

FOR THE CHILDREN

El Gaucho Goofy – Walt Disney’s Goofy – A 5-stanza poem with 5 illustrations all on a single page

Yoomee by James Swinnerton

BETWEEN THE BOOK ENDS – POETRY:
Conducted by Ted Malone

1939/04 – Cover illustrated by Horace Gaffron

Contents are as follows:

The Editor’s Page: Once There Was a Tree

FICTION:

“Miracle at Elm Harbor” by Coningsby Dawson and illustrated by John Falter

“The Girl Who Asked Too Much” by Marian B. Cockrell and illustrated by Jon Whitcomb

“Appointment With Tomorrow” — Part 2 of 6 — by Ursula Parrott and illustrated by Tom Lovell

“Some Other Door” by Cora Jarrett and illustrated by Arthur Sarnoff

“American Legend” — Part 5 of 6 — by Pearl Buck and illustrated by Alfred Parker

“The Perfect Treasure” by Thyra Samter Winslow and illustrated by Benton Clark

“Glamour” by Stephen Vincent Benet — the favorite short story of Robert Nathan — Illustrated by Edwin Henry

“Under One Roof” by Elizabeth Troy and illustrated by Pruett Carter

“Herman” by Edith Barnard Delano and illustrated by Harold Von Schmidt

SPECIAL ARTICLES:

How This Picture Was Made by Andrew Ransome

–And I’m So Movie Mad! by Grace P. Smith

Facts and Fiction by The Staff

To Whom It May Concern by Albert Payson Terhune – 1 page

Mrs. Graham Buys a New Dress by Selma Robinson

The Questions They Ask by Helen Welshimer

Don’t Call It ‘Frisco by Max Miller

Speed Limit by J.C. Furnas

Dream It and Do It! by Marjorie Hillis

Learn and Live by Claudia Cranston

FASHIONS:
Edited by Helen Houes

THE STUDIO:

THE INSTITUTE:
Edited by Katharine Fisher

THE BEAUTY CLINIC:
Edited by Ruth Murrin

GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BUREAU:

BABIES, NEEDLEWORK, ETC..:

FOR THE CHILDREN

Walt Disney’s Silly Symphony: The Ugly Duckling – A 5 stanza poem with 5 color illustrations all on a single page

Canyon Kiddies by James Swinnerton

POEMS:

1942/11 – Cover illustrated by Alex Ross

Contents are as follows:

FICTION:
SHORT STORIES:

“Some Day I Have To Buy a Hat” by Wilma Shore and illustrated by George Hughes

“At a Sacrifice” by Margaret Cousins and illustrated by John Gannam

“Do You Remember?” by William E. Barrett and illustrated by Hardie Gramatky

“A Call for Mrs. Garrett” by Robert Carson and illustrated by Harry Anderson

“Miss Laurie Will Be Late Tonight” by Dennison Smith and illustrated by Mead Schaeffer

“They Said She Wasn’t Much Good” by Barbara Aldrich and illustrated Fedric Varady

SERIALS:

“Shadows in the Son” — Part 1 of 2 — by Edmund Ware and illustrated by Arthur Sarnoff

“Lady Not Alone” — Part 2 of 2 — by Katharine Brush and illustrated by Alfred Parker

SPECIAL ARTICLES:

You’re Welcome by Kay Riley

Can You Read These Signs of the Times? by Vernon Pope

Distinguished Visitors by George Marek

The Watch by Norman R. Jaffray

Dearest Jane–You Tell Me by Phyllis Duganne

Grace for This Day by Margaret Lee Runbeck

How to Write Your Congressman by Mary Jane Gallagher

If You Were Mrs. Ogden Nash by Nanette Kutner

What the Bible Society Does by The Staff

Just Relax by Maxine Davis

The Girls We’re Going To Marry When the War Is Done by Corporal Marion Hargrove

Snapshots of Your Children by Toni Frissell

What I Thought by Margaret Culkin Banning

Five SHort Vocabulary Tests by Wilfred Funk and Norman Lewis

Don’t Lose These Papers! by Hawthorne Daniel

Teens of Our Times by Helene Wright

The Censor Reads Your Letters by Jonathan Wake

Keep Up with Medicine

Adopted Babies Should Be Tested First by Hildegarde Dolson

THE BEAUTY CLINIC:
Edited by Ruth Murrin

FASHIONS:
Edited by Martha Stout

THE STUDIO:
Edited by Helen Koues

THE INSTITUTE:
Edited by Katharine Fisher

GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BUREAU:

BABIES, NEEDLEWORK:

FOR THE CHILDREN

Bambi – Conclusion — Walt Disney – This is a single page with about 3/4’s of the page taken up by an illustration, a little text underneath

Yoomee by James Swinnerton

BETWEEN THE BOOK ENDS – POETRY:
Conducted by Ted Malone

Includes “Tableau at Twilight” by Ogden Nash

1943/06 – Cover illustrated by Alex Ross

Contents are as follows:

FICTION:
SHORT STORIES:

“What Else Am I?” by Anita Block and illustrated by Alex Ross

“You’ll Understand When You’re Older” by Elizabeth Dunn and illustrated by John Gannam

“Doris Mutten and the Man Downstairs” by Noel Langley and illustrated by Tom Lovell

“Dear Mr. Dix” by Edmund Ware and illustrated by Jon Whitcomb

“The Roses Were for Her” by Hamlen Hunt and illustrated by Barbara Schwinn

“Sweet and Girlish” by Libbie Block and illustrated by Harry Anderson

NOVELS:

“Episode of the Wandering Knife” — Part 1 of 2 — by Mary Roberts Rinehart

“Charm Bracelet” — Part 2 of 2 — by Katharine Brush and illustrated by Alfred Parker

SPECIAL ARTICLES:

This Haunting Business by George Marek

There’s Smoke, There’s Ire by Kay Riley

Situations Right at Hand by Helene Wright

This Special School Is for Tomorrow by John Sexton Fraser

The Lingo in the Theatre by Henry Stahl

Take a Look in His Wallet by Private Reuven Frank

Brain Surgery by Maxine Davis

If You Don’t Like Your Daughter’s Beau by Florence Howitt

When the Movies Were Young by Vernon Pope – 2 pages, 16 reproductions of movie theatre slides used years ago with general messages such as “No Stamping or Whistling Allowed” and requests for ladies to remve their hats

If You Were Mrs. Lin Yutang by Nanette Kutner

How to Avoid Lightning by Paul W. Kearney

You, Too, Can be a Book Collector by John Fleming

Is Your Name Smith? by Edith Rose

Keep Up with Medicine

FASHIONS:
Edited by Martha Stout

THE BEAUTY CLINIC:
Edited by Ruth Murrin

THE STUDIO:
Edited by Helen Koues

THE INSTITUTE:
Edited by Katharine Fisher

BABIES, NEEDLEWORK:

GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BUREAU:

FOR THE CHILDREN

Yoomee by James Swinnerton

The Vanishing Private — Walt Disney’s Donald Duck – One page

BETWEEN THE BOOK ENDS – POETRY:
Conducted by Ted Malone

1945/04 – Cover illustrated by Alex Ross

Contents are as follows:

SHORT STORIES:

“Mighty Fine Day” by Ernest Haycox and illustrated by Jon Whitcomb

“The Whetstone” by Hamlen Hunt and illustrated by Harry Anderson

“The Awakening” by Charles Robbins and illustrated by Barbara Schwinn

“Front Seat in Heaven” by Louis Golding and illustrated by Al Parker

“What Dreams May Come” by Rose Franken and illustrated by Harry Anderson

TWO-PART STORIES:

“Sandra Stone Will Be a Ball” — Part 1 of 2 — by Margaret Cousins and illustrated by Coby Whitmore

“Before the Swallow Dares” — Part 2 of 2 — by Victoria Lincoln and illustrated by Lonie Bee

SPECIAL ARTICLES:

The Most Popular Symphonies by Geroge Marek

Keep Up with Medicine

Nothing for the Boys? by Helene Wright

Most Likely To Recede by Kay Riley

Anything Can Happen in a Year by Katharine Brush

Asthma by Maxine Davis

What’s Wrong With These Endings? by Carl Van Doren

Memory Lane by The Staff

Diamonds and Bad Luck by Evelyn Schloss

A Place for the Extra Woman by Florence Howitt

That Average Baby by Judith Chase Churchill

Those Oysters We Eat by Howard Bloomfield

A Bachelor Keeps House by Louis Untermeyer

FASHIONS:
Edited by Martha Stout

THE BEAUTY CLINIC:
Edited by Ruth Murrin

THE STUDIO:
Edited by Dorothy Draper

THE INSTITUTE:
Edited by Katharine Fisher

THE BABY CENTER:

BETWEEN THE BOOK ENDS – POETRY:
Conducted by Ted Malone

THE BUREAU:

FOR THE CHILDREN

1947/12 – Cover illustrated by Alex Ross

Contents are as follows:

SHORT STORIES:

“The Miracle Tree” by Kermit Rolland and illustrated by Robert Patterson

“Out of a Box” by Charles Robbins and illustrated by George Englert

“Two People, Alone” by Richard Mealand and illustrated by Al Parker

“Days of Grace” by William Fay and illustrated by Coby Whitmore

TWO-PART STORY:

“The Rose and the Yew Tree” — Part 1 of 2 — by Mary Westmacott and illustrated by David Berger

ARTICLES AND FEATURES:

The Most Famous Christmas Music by George Marek

Town Hall by The Editors

Assingment in Hollywood by Harry Crocker

Party of the First Part by Helene Wright

High Blood Pressure by Maxine Davis

Nothing Personal by Russell Maloney

Wife Can be Beautiful by Kay Riley

These Cream Antiperspriants Won’t Rot Fabrics by Christopher Brooks

Keep Up with Medicine

The Greater Happiness by Margery Sharp

Here’s the Way They Wash Your Clothes by Morton Sontheimer

Memory Lane by The Staff

The Poetry Page by Emerson Starr

FASHIONS:
Nancy White, Director

THE BUILDING FORUM:
Joseph B. Mason, Director

THE STUDIO:
Helen Sells, Director

THE INSTITUTE:
Katharine Fisher, Director

THE BEAUTY CLINIC:
Ruth Murrin, Director

THE BABY CENTER:
Dr. Josephine H. Kenyon, Director

THE BUREAU:

A PAGE FOR CHILDREN

1945/07 – Cover illustrated by Alex Ross

Contents are as follows:

SHORT STORIES:

“Every Woman Does” by Frederick Laing and illustrated by Jon Whitcomb

“Female” by Darrell Huff and illustrated by Barbara Schwinn

“Send In Your Answer” by William March and illustrated by Phil Dormont

“The Man Who Was Born in Grand Central” by Robert Cenedella and illustrated by Al Parker

“The World of Mr. Hovington” by Anita Rowe Block and illustrated by Harry Anderson

TWO-PART STORIES:

“The Dark Corner” — Part 1 of 2 — by Leonard Q. Ross and illustrated by John Gannam

“The Lawbreaker and the Lady” — Conclusion — by Ruth Power-O’Malley and illustrated by James Bingham

SPECIAL ARTICLES:

How to Entertain a Visiting Celebrity by George Marek

Town Hall by The Editors

Trouble, Somewhat by Helene Wright

Going Hollywood by Frank S. Nugent

Keep Up With Medicine

More To Be Pitied by Kay Riley

And What Did You Say to Sinatra? by Margaret Case Harriman

What Do You and He Talk About? by Helen Van Pelt Wilson

If You See These Two Pigeons, You Can Get Five Thousand Dollars by William Bridges

The Mystery of a Man’s Pockets by Judith Chase Churchill

Memory Lane by The Staff

Some of This Unclaimed Money May Belong To You by Sylvia F. Porter

The New Plastic Surgery by Maxine Davis

It’s Silly to Try to Be Perfect by Marjorie Mattern

Tootsie by Loy Byrnes

FASHIONS:
Edited by Martha Stout

THE INSTITUTE:
Edited by Katharine Fisher

THE BEAUTY CLINIC:
Edited by Ruth Murrin

THE STUDIO:
Edited by Dorothy Draper

THE BABY CENTER:

POETRY:
Conducted by Ted Malone

THE BUREAU:

FOR THE CHILDREN

Ad for Woodbury Film Finish Powder features large color image of Lucille Ball

1951/03 – Cover illustrated by Alex Ross

Contents are as follows:

STORIES AND FEATURES:

The Town of the Month: Crescent City, California by Best and Hillyer

Memory Lane by The Staff

Town Hall by The Editors

Assignment in Hollywood

What My Mother Gave Me by Madge Mahan

“Tomorrow and Tomorrow” by Val Teal and illustrated by John McClelland

The New Laws of Canasta

“The Big Dream” by Elva Williams and illustrated by Frederick Smith

“Pattern” by Rachel MacKenzie and illustrated by Mac Conner

A New Boss Every Hour by Lorna Slocombe

The Case for Privacy by Evelyn Eaton

“Revenge” by Alice Griffith Craft and illustrated by Robert Patterson

The Meeker Sex by Fredda Dudley Balling

My Mother-in-Law Stayed Four Years by Virginia Patterson

The Poetry Page by Emerson Starr

THE INSTITUTE:
Katharine Fisher, Co-ordinator

FASHIONS:

THE BUILDING FORUM:

THE BEAUTY CLINIC:

NEEDLEWORK ROOM:

DECORATING STUDIO:

SEWING CENTER:

FOOD:

TEXTILE LABORATORY:

CLEANING, MENDING AND APPLIANCES:

BABY CENTER:

BUREAU AND CHEMICAL LABORATORY:

CHILDREN

MEDICINE AND HEALTH:

AUTOMOBILES:

TEEN-AGE:

1946/01 – Cover illustrated by Alex Ross

Contents are as follows:

SHORT STORIES:

“Vote for Henry Ladd!” by Max Shulman and illustrated by Alex Ross

“One-Way Ticket” by William March and illustrated by Barbara Schwinn

“I’ll Get Along Fine” by Wilma Shore and illustrated by Al Parker

“A Man of Parts” by Grace Amundson and illustrated by Coby Whitmore

“No Other Woman’ by Lorna Slocombe and illustrated by Jon Whitcomb

TWO-PART STORIES:

“Wanted: Someone Innocent” — Part 1 of 2 — by Margery Allingham and illustrated by Al Parker

“Little White Flowers” — Conclusion — by Ruth Power-O’Malley and illustrated by Perry Peterson

ARTICLES AND FEATURES:

What Women’s Clubs Can Do For Music by George Marek

Who’s Your Friend? by Helene Wright

Assingment in Hollywood by Frank S. Nugent

Keep Up With Medicine

Light and Fantastic by Kay Riley

A New Year’s Prayer by James Street

About Islands by Roderick Peattie

Memory Lane by The Editors

Cirrhosis of the Liver by Maxine Davis

Diamonds in the Street by Meyer Levin

The Poetry Page by Emerson Starr

Tootie by Loy Byrnes

THE BUILDING FORUM:
Joseph B. Mason, Director

THE STUDIO:
Helen Sells, Director

THE INSTITUTE:
Katharine Fisher, Director

THE BEAUTY CLINIC:
Ruth Murrin, Director

FASHIONS:
Martha Stout, Director

THE NEEDLEWORK ROOM:
Alice Edith Carroll, Director

THE BUREAU:

A PAGE FOR CHILDREN

1952/02 – Cover illustrated by Alex Ross

Contents are as follows:

STORIES AND FEATURES:

Memory Lane by The Staff

Town Hall by The Editors

Assignment in Hollywood

Look, Ma, We’re Moving by Shirley Jackson (article)

“Who’s Afraid?” by Dorothy Staley and illustrated by Coby Whitmore

“The Bike” by William Saroyan and illustrated by Al Parker

“All Good Secretaries Get Married” by Rachel Thornton and illustrated by Frederick Smith

The Hurricane by Lucia Alzamora

The Poetry Page by Emerson Starr

THE INSTITUTE:
Katharine Fisher, Co-ordinator

FASHIONS:

SECURITY:

BUREAU AND CHEMICAL LABORATORY:

STUDIO:

BUILDING:

EDUCATION:

APPLIANCES AND HOME CARE:

NEEDLEWORK ROOM:

FOOD:

MEDICINE AND HEALTH:

CHILDREN

MUSIC:

TEEN-AGE:

AUTOMOBILES:

BEAUTY:

BABY CENTER:

1941/06 – Cover illustrated by Jon Whitcomb

Contents are as follows:

FICTION:

“One Night, Long Ago” by James Hilton and illustrated by Emery Clark

“She’s My Witch” by Abner Stuart and illustrated by Jon Whitcomb

“The Door That Would Not Stay Closed” by Mary Roberts Rinehart and illustrated by Tom Lovell

“I Haven’t Seen You Cry” by Faith Baldwin and illustrated by Al Parker

“One Wedding More” by Gladys Taber and illustrated by Ray Prohaska

NOVELETTE:

“Simply Heaven” by Margaret Lee Runbeck and illustrated by Bob Harris

SERIALS:

“Everything Happens to Us” – Part 3 of 4 — by Ruth Lyons and illustrated by Earl Cordrey

“Young Widow” — Part 5 of 6 — by Clarissa Fairchild Cushman and illustrated by Harry Anderson

SPECIAL ARTICLES:

Town Hall by The Editors

In the Time of Roses by W.F. Bigelow

A Normal Little Girl in the Movies by Mary Hamman

Naughty! Naughty! by George Marek

Loco Motion by Kay Riley

Making Better Snapshots by Palmer Sims

The Character of My Children by Edmund Ware

What a Woman Columnist Does by The Staff

A Home Medical Chart on Skin Disorders

Don’t Call Me Lady Chesterfield by Margaret Case Harriman

How to Interest Children in Art by Thomas Craven

The Six Best-Dressed Women in Fiction by Carmel Snow

Life Could Be Improved by Katharine Brush

Where Shall They Go for Glory? by Pearl S. Buck

Recipes for Human Nature by Paul Grabbe

How to Talk to a Man by Henrietta Ripperger

Are You Going With a Service Man? by Henrietta Ripperger

FASHIONS:
Edited by Martha Stout

FOR THE CHILDREN

Canyon Kiddies by James Swinnerton

A Gentleman’s Gentleman — Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse – A 5-stanza poem with 5 color illustrations all on a single page

THE STUDIO:
Edited by Helen Koues

THE BEAUTY CLINIC:
Edited by Ruth Murrin

THE INSTITUTE:
Edited by Katharine Fisher

BABIES, NEEDLEWORK:

GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BUREAU:

BETWEEN THE BOOK ENDS – POETRY:
Conducted by Ted Malone

“Brides” by Isabelle Bryans Longfellow

“Motherhood” by Edith Cherrington

“A Little Boy Out Walking” by Helen Dahle

“Fable for Spring” by Irene Wilde

“Promise” by Frances Boal Mehlek

“We Are Three” by David O. Selznick

“Domesticity” by Albert Horlings

“Love Letters in an Attic” by Dorothy Cowles Pinkney

“Gardener’s Lament” by Florence Hilliard

“We Have Wept” by Mary Scott Willour

1946/02 – Cover illustrated by Alex Ross

Contents are as follows:

SHORT STORIES:

“On the House” by Walter Weir and illustrated by Bob Harris

“The Princess Was There All the Time” by Ruth Power-O’Malley and illustrated by John Gannam

“Do You Ever See the Stars?” by Grace Amundson and illustrated by Coby Whitmore

“Better in Memory” by Naomi A. Hintze and illustrated by Barbara Schwinn

TWO-PART STORIES:

“The Turquoise” — Part 1 of 2 — by Charles Morgan and illustrated by Jon Whitcomb

“Wanted: Someone Innocent” — Part 2 of 2 — by Margery Allingham and illustrated by Al Parker

ARTICLES AND FEATURES:

Strictly for Laughs by George Marek

You Don’t Have to Be Introduced by Helene Wright

Assignment in Hollywood by Harry Crocker

Keep Up with Medicine

Lives of Wives by Kay Riley

The Passing Parade by Roark Bradford

The Male Coiffure by Judith Chase Churchill

Jaundice by Maxine Davis

The Library That Things by Donald Culross Peattie

Memory Lane by The Staff

The Poetry Page by Emerson Starr

Accustomed As I Am by Louis Untermeyer

THE BUILDING FORUM:
Joseph B. Mason, Director

THE STUDIO:
Helen Sells, Director

THE BEAUTY CLINIC:
Ruth Murrin, Director

THE INSTITUTE:
Katharine Fisher, Director

FASHIONS:
Martha Stout, Director

THE NEEDLEWORK ROOM:
Alice Edith Carroll, Director

THE BABY CENTER:

THE BUREAU:

A PAGE FOR CHILDREN