Cover: Paulette Goddard as "Kitty", photographic record of Truman's cabinet; the Russian Navy, crisis in China, photographic essay on College Sororities, housing shortage, Albert Speer, artist James Lewicki paints Christmas celebrations around the world. In sports, Oklahoma starts basketball season, Texas A&M; The Japanese Emperor discusses the national diet,   and the French police recover the world's largest pearl.

Some of the many great ads include a General Electric radio ad with opera star Rise Stevens, a full page color Capehart ad with "Journey to a Star" by  renowned Bernard Lamotte,  a full page Whitman's Sampler, and color Hiram Walker's gin ad with Czech art by Vladimir Bobri. There are 136 pages, small mailing label on back cover.