Dates
- Cover date
- February 1950
- In stores
- November 1, 1949
- Pages
- 52
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- I Turned Into a Small-Town Flirt! · 30 pages
Lila’s family loses its fortune in the Depression and her father dies. Her mother tells Lila “you’ve got to devote your life to snaring a wealthy man!” They move to a small town in Vermont. Lila is courted by wealthy Philip but finds him a bore; for fun, she dates regular-guy Cary. Middle-aged John is her next target, then rich and ruthless Gordon, a “middle-aged man with a dollar sign for a heart.” When a financial panic threatens the town, Lila learns Cary is the president of the local bank. He proposes marriage, and they wed.
- Beauty Unveiled · 2 pages
- Love That Man! · 7 pages
A young woman is greeted at the train station by Jimmy, who calls her “Kitty.” He later explains that he invented a fake girlfriend because he didn’t want marry the woman his parents had chosen. Kitty agrees to keep up the pretense for a time, but Jimmy’s ex-girlfriend Rhoda suspects her and later frames her for theft. Jimmy and Kitty expose Rhoda’s scheme and Kitty admits she is Gail, Jimmy’s arranged-fiancée. Now they can marry because they want to.
Reprinted in
Wedding Ring Library (1965)