The Cover
Children must learn to multiply this by that and come out correct usually, else what's the use of growing up into a world full of income-tax banks? But education is vexation. Often Miss Jones gets so weary of trying to hammer data into little craniums that she yearns to be shipwrecked on a desert isle; and often the little craniums get so weary of Miss Jones, period. Then one day, surprise!

Over the cold, emotionless number work on the blackboard are scrawled words warm with sentiment. Tomorrow the acutely quiet posture of the scholars will have deteriorated into normal squirms, and the teacher's smile will have deteriorated, period. But right now Norman Rockwell has captured a moment when Miss Jones knows she loves those kids, and the kids know they love Jonesy.

In this issue
Vol. 228, No. 38

Short Stories
• Daylight Robbery . . . John Reese
• The Night Mrs. Kent Quit . . . Alice Hogan
• The Roughneck . . . Doris Hume
• What Every Girl Should Know . . . Charles Beaumont

Novelette
• The Mystern of Misty Creek . . . Marvin DeVries

Articles
• What is a High School For? . . . John A. Perkins
• Don't be a Sucker, Junior! . . . Jan Peerce, as told to Stanley Frank
• They Get Paid for Not Working . . . Robert M. Yoder
• Cities of the World: (No. 18) Munich . . . James P. O'Donnell
• New Way to Keep Food Fresh . . . Milton Silverman
• The Cave Men of Coober Pedy . . . William L. Worden
• The Face of America: Salute to Sirup . . . Photograph by Ivan Dmitri
• Well, It Was This Way (Fifth of eight articles) . . . Gary Cooper, as told to George Scullin

Other Features
• Letters
• Editorials
• Remember When?
• Post Scripts
• Vers
• Keeping Posted