Dates
- Cover date
- June 1955
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Unhappy Love · 7 pages
Newspaper photographer Lorna threatens to ruin the reputation of Ted’s skating rink unless he sells out to her boss Bill Brown. The paper publishes a photo of Ted kissing his fiancée Carol and claims the rink is an unwholesome place for teens. Ted secretly tape records Brown making his threats and blackmails him into apologising and even supporting Ted’s business.
- The Choice Was Mine · 1 pages
- He Loved Me Not · 4 pages
Florist Laurie-Ann is in love with regular customer Ken, but refuses to respond to his romantic advances because she thinks he’s sending flowers to another woman. Ken explains that the “other woman” is the widow of “a dead Army buddy of mine!” and he really loves Laurie-Ann.
- In Love and Miserable! · 0.5 pages
- Torch for the Wrong Guy · 0.5 pages
- Choose Well, My Heart! · 6 pages
Susan and Jeff are in love, but can’t get married until he earns his engineering degree. She doesn’t want to wait. One day, Susan is struck by wealthy Tony’s car but not seriously injured. They begin to date and Susan dumps Jeff. However, when Susan suffers a delayed reaction from the crash, Tony says “I don’t want a cripple on my hands!” and she breaks up with him. Jeff returns and offers to marry Susan right away, but she is now happy to wait until he graduates.
- Tragic Awakening · 5 pages
Peggy drops out of high school and gets a factory job. She finds her new freedom fun at first, but when college student Ted interviews her for a project, he is shocked that she voluntarily left school and Peggy begins to regret her actions. Peggy dates Ted but feels he looks down on her and goes back to her factory boyfriend Mac. However, Ted explains he does love Peggy and urges her to return to school so they can have a better life together. She agrees.