Cover: Spring Fashion, with a great fashion feature; the comic strip "Gasoline Alley" ; French nursery, Cradle of Rouen cares for GI war infants, Life goes to renowned club "21" ; long article on US housing shortage; trial of French "Bluebeard" who killed 63; Chicago bar holds hat-burning party; underwater photos show swimmer Jane Wilson demonstrating the breast stroke; Jesuit seismologist Father Lynch; movie "The Green Years" ; medical science takes on cancer; FDR's home in Hyde Park is opened to the public; Berlin Express train; rare manuscripts go to auction; Life helps a war widow consider whether to remarry; British production of "Lady Windermere's Fan" ; chinchillas and more. This issue has 137 pages, small mailing label on back corner. Blue ink on front cover.

Ads: Hotpoint electric ranges; Van Raatle nylon stocking ad with cute dog; A&P  Supermarket Easter ham ad; 7-up soda; radio star Hildegarde promotes General Electric radios; Jell-o; Wyeth Pharmaceuticals ad shows elderly couple ; the western film "Renegades" with Evelyn Keyes; Dorothy Lamour promotes Royal Crown cola; movie "So Goes All My Love" with Myrna Loy and Don Ameche; Royal Stetson Hat ad set at dog show; beautiful art ad for Cutex "Dark n' Handsome" nail polish; "Family Musicale" ad for beer, by Mead Schaffer; actor Alan Ladd endorses Fleers gum and more. 137 pages, small mailing label on back corner.