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It is educational for a boy to squire a lady gourmet to a smart eatery and have the experience of surviving the bad news eventually imparted by the waiter. Thus he is taught, when his muscles are young and adaptable, to use split vision in a restaurant, one eye checking the fodder on the menu, the other the mathematics relating thereto. If this lad should say, "Mom, how about I divide by two and we each pay our own?" it will indicate a smart boy, but probably will be the last time he'll get away with that with a woman. George Hughes illustrates here a rite performed by waiters: when in doubt about the adequacy of a forth-coming tip, they cross two fingers to exert a favorable whammy on their victims. Maybe this restaurant's hat-check girl better cross all her fingers.
In this issue
Vol. 228, No. 28
Short stories
The Trap
Marriage Money
Landing Party
No Man for Nancy
Articles
How I Got This Way
Oh, Where Did My Money Go?
"The Most Impossible Job in the World"
Those Smug, Smug Russians: Communism is Their Religion
I've Had Enough!
The Face of America: dune Denizens
Mr. Henry's Empire
The Dog That Loved Foxes
Serials
Those Midofrd Girls
The Cast of the Missing Poison
Other features
Letters
Editorials
Post Scripts
Verse
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