Issue Information
Cover Date
June 1947
 
 
Cover Titles
Ready for a Steady?
 
 
Cover Credits
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Stories
  Job
Number
Title Pages Credits
  - In This Issue

Notes: Martin Goodman, Publisher; Frances Glencott, Editor; Melvin D. Blum, Art Director; Jean Goodman, Supervising Editor; Joyce Reback, Fashion Editor; Annette Blackman, Associate Editor; Gladys Kay, Shopping Editor; Aileen Fogarty, Director of Public Relations; May Mann, Hollywood Representative.
1 pg contents
  - Know-How to Wash Your Face 2 pg article Veronica Dengel script signed

Contributors:
Tom Lammers: Creator Credit
  - Hello, Girls - - pg editorial Jean Goodman script signed

Contributors:
Tom Lammers: Creator Credit
  - It's the Gypsy in You ... 1 pg fashion page
  - Professor Quiz

Notes: Tie-in to the Professor Quiz radio program (CBS, 1936-1941; ABC, 1941-1948), including a photo of the host, Dr. Craig Earl.
- pg activity page
  - Ring the Dinner Bell 2 pg article
  - Flashes from MAC ...

Notes: Brief notes for Miss America Club members. Includes a photo of actress Peggy Ann Garner (1932-1984), who had just joined the "regular MAC board". She is identified as the star of "Bob, Son of Battle". That film was actually released under the title Thunder in the Valley (Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. ,1947). Mentions chapters with largest numbers of members: Bronx NY (140), Detroit MI (96), Kahuku HI (86), Brooklyn NY (64), and Vicksburg MS (41).
- pg article
  - Hollywood's Younger Set

Notes: Features photos of actors Jerome Courtland (b. 1926), [James] Marshall Thompson (1925-1992), Elizabeth Taylor (b. 1932), Roddy McDowall (1928-1998), Mona Freeman (b. 1926), Shirley Temple (b. 1928), Peter Lawford (1923-1984); bandleader Aaron González (1908-1990); and manufacturer Arthur Atwater Kent (1873–1949). One item mentions meeting "blonde seventeen-year-old Marilyn Monroe [1926-1962], a typical, wholesome Miss America ... Is she pretty!!!! She's just been signed by 20th Century-Fox. We presume in another year you'll be hearing a good deal about her."
2 pg contents May Mann script signed

Contributors:
Tom Lammers: Creator Credit
  - Memory of Love 4 pg illustrated story Michele Small script signed

Contributors:
Tom Lammers: Creator Credit
  - Ready for a Steady?

Notes: Includes a photo (as a filler on page 54) of actor Harry Lewis (b. 1920).

This is romance novelist Kathleen Thompson Norris (1880-1966).
3 pg article Kathleen J. Norris script signed

Contributors:
Tom Lammers: Creator Credit
  - The Perfect Gift 4 pg illustrated story Julie Easton script signed

Contributors:
Tom Lammers: Creator Credit
  - And Now Tomorrow ... 2 pg fashion page
  - My Date with Roddy McDowall

Notes: This is the daughter of actress Hazel Dawn (1891-1988). Includes photos of Roddy McDowall (1928-1998), Ann Blyth (b. 1928), and Farley Granger (b. 1925).
3 pg article Hazel Dawn, Jr. script signed

Contributors:
Tom Lammers: Creator Credit
  - Winning Model ... 4 pg art Maxine Shore script signed
Louise Altson pencils signed

Contributors:
Tom Lammers: Creator Credit
  - Man-Made Miracles ... 1 pg article Annette Blackman script signed

Contributors:
Tom Lammers: Creator Credit
  - Dear Betty Ann - 2 pg article Victoria Allen Dunford script signed
Dottie Keller pencils signed

Contributors:
Tom Lammers: Creator Credit
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·Patsy Walker starring
8 pg art Christopher Rule pencils attributed

Contributors:
Tom Lammers: Creator Credit
  - Puzzling Situations 2 pg activity page
  - Cram Session ... 2 pg article Eleanor Hiteshew script signed

Contributors:
Tom Lammers: Creator Credit
  - So You Want to Be a Cartoonist?

Notes: Interview with cartoonist Milt Gross (1895-1953).
3 pg article Cal Cagno script signed

Contributors:
Tom Lammers: Creator Credit
  - Don't Miss Junior Miss! - pg house ad
  - You're It - in the Sun! 2 pg fashion page
  - Batter Up!

Notes: Features photos of players in the All-American Girls Baseball League (1943-1954), including Audrey Haine of the Ft. Wayne Daisies, Irene Applegren of the Rockford Peaches, Betty Whiting of the Grand Rapids Chicks, and Janet Jacobs of the Racine Belles.
3 pg article Maurice Bassaches script signed
Gerrick pencils signed

Contributors:
Tom Lammers: Creator Credit
  - Date-Trottin' Cottons 1 pg fashion page
  - Miss America Speaks ... 1 pg letters page
  - For Girls Only

Notes: A 14-year-old girl named Anne writes, "what if you have crushes on girls? Twice now I have liked girls, one was 19 and one was my age ... I don't like to talk to my mother about this ... now can you control yourself?" Mrs. Goodman replies that "Having crushes on girls is merely part of this business of growing up – and is as normal as breathing! ... Do not be ashamed of liking girls ... Shortly, you will find your interests will turn toward boys ..."
2 pg letters page Jean Goodman script signed

Contributors:
Tom Lammers: Creator Credit