Dates
- Cover date
- December 1952
- On sale
- August 19, 1952
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Goodbye to Love · 5 pages
Glamorous Hillary returns to her hometown and steals Oliver from her former best friend Laura. Laura and fellow teacher Dick, who loved Hillary, decide to elope. When they’re caught together by Dick’s landlady, a scandal ensues. Dick hides the fact that he and Laura are married, and offers to resign his teaching job. Laura clears their names by revealing that they are man and wife, and discovers she really loves Dick.
- I'll Wait for You · 6 pages
Eloise falls in love with Bill, a young Marine about to be sent back to the Korean War. He asks her to wait for him, but she says “I don’t want to have to grow up so fast!” However, she eventually realizes that the war affects everyone and “I guess we all have to grow up, whether we want to or not.” She tracks down Bill before he leaves and promises to wait for him.
- Man Crazy · 8 pages
Ruth is a “one-date girl” because she’s too anxious to find a man to love and marry. “You scare men away by being too anxious and forward with them,” Dr. King advises. Although she says “It’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard,” Ruth agrees to follow his advice with Jeff, alternately acting like an “iceberg” and friendly towards him. Jeff says he’s leaving for Australia. Dr. King: “I don’t understand how this could happen.” Ruth “You’ve ruined my life!” However, Jeff proposes marriage at the last minute and he and Ruth will live happily ever after, in Australia.
- Cooking... with Love · 2 pages
- Momism or Me · 6 pages
Vicky, who “spent most of her life in the tenement section of an overcrowded, dusty city,” moves to the countryside to be a “domestic” on a farm. She and neighboring farmer Clem fall in love, but he’s “helplessly trapped in [the] clutches” of his “neurotic” mother who claims to be ill. When their house catches fire, Clem risks his life to save his mother and she changes her mind, giving her blessing to Clem and Vicky’s romance.