The Cover
Comes a time to every feminine person when she goes up in the world. Using lofty contraptions under the back of her shoes, touching herslef with stiletto heels as if with two magic wands, abracadabra!-she transfigures a tender-age girl into a tender-age woman. Amos Sewell shows the transformation in its first teetering step. Just the way magic slippers didn't make a chic ensemble with Cinderella's awful rags, now they are incompatible with Cynthias awful shirttails and jeans of blue; so she will suddenly be arrayed in nylons, a cloud-like gown, maybe a flick of lipstick, and will fare forth to bewitch a prince or two. But, mother needn't grieve about losing her little one, for tomorrow, and many tomorrows, Cynthia will youthfully come back down to earth in awful flatties.

In this issue
Vol. 228, No. 40

Short Stories
• The Boy Who Hated Girls . . . Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
• So I'm a Bum . . . Charles Einstein
• The Hunter and the Hunted . . . Hugh B. Cave
• I Thee Do Wed . . . Alma Robison Higbee

Articles
• I Found Russia Changed (First of three articles) . . . Charles W. Thayer
• The Face of America: Cherry-Blossom Time . . . Photograph by Ivan Dmitri
• How to Make a Killer Confess . . . John Lewellen
• Well, It was This Way (Seventh of eight articles) . . . Gary Cooper, as told to George Scullin
• Look Who's Teaching School . . . Alice Lake
• The Lineman of Perilous Pass . . . Hal Burton
• Abe and His "Secret" Weapon . . . J.O. Buckeridge and Ashley Halsey, Jr.

Serials
• I Love You, Mama Girl (First of five parts) . . . William Saroyan
• Treasure at Tandem Key (Fourth of five parts) . . . Philip Wylie

Other Features
• Letters
• Editorials
• Post Scripts
• Verse
• Keeping Posted