Blue Book - February 1948

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A Complete Book-Length Novel

- This Land Is Ours By Oscar Schisgall 96

A colorful story of the West, and its Nationl Parks and cattle-men today.



A Novelette

- The Mask of Noh By William Brandon 130

An Army intelligence officer in Japan deals with a reverie double-cross in a malter of stolen pearls.



Ten Short Stories

- The Big Hitch By Robert Barbour Johnson 2

A modern circus with its tractors learns to apprecil#e its fine old MtJ/t horses.

- The Broad-Brimmed Hat By Charles Ellsworth 12

A millwright journeys West, young man, and invents something new.

- King Bones By Bill Goode 22

He looked like a mongrel but made history on the Florida dog tracks.

- We're Coming Through! By Arch Whitehouse 35

A moving and subtle drama ofthe airplanes over the Alidwest.

- The Ladies By Georges Surdez 42

The author of'Homeland" returns to the ForNgn Legion in this story.

- Starlet in Jeopardy By Joel Reeve 48

Home from Hollywood to the Old Neighborhood, she is kidnaped.

- The Cup Comes Home By H Bedford-Jones 58

Round the Hwn for China, the good ship Martha picks up castaways.

- The Pastel Production Line By John D. MacDonald 76

A factory trouble-shooter is saddled with 11 Man of Vision from Washington.

- The Shipmate Spirit By Frederick and P. G. Bell 83

When an outbound Navy ship needs stores, she gets them.

- Calling All Cars! By Karl Detzer 90

He called far more cars than existed—and thereby got his man.



Stories of Fact and Experiment

- New Evidence By Cornell Greening and Richard Match 19

- Curious circumstances in the life, of John Wilkes Booth just before his crime.

- Combat Team By Colonel Rupert D. Graves 66

The Battle of the Bulge concludes the fighting care., of the 517th Airborne.

- Washington Lives in His Ledgers By Fairfax Downey 75

He recorded the expenses for spies—and his accounts balanced.



Special Features

- Centenary of the Washington Monument 56

- Old prints from Three Lions, Schoenfeld Collection.

- Sport Spurts By Harold Helfer 82

- The Fireman's Dilemma By Peter Wells 144

Written, engrossed illuminated by the artist-author.