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Inside front cover. Includes indicia.
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- How could I live with my husband?
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- romance
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- Helen Young; Bob Nolan; Arthur Manners; Jane Manners; Sergeant Curtman
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- A few weeks before her wedding to Bob, Helen accepts a ride from Arthur, her friend Jane’s husband. Arthur gets fresh, Helen resists, the car wrecks, Arthur is killed, and Helen flees. The authorities know a woman was with Arthur and Jane says she’ll kill the woman if she finds her. After marrying Bob, Helen has nightmares about the accident. Jane learns Helen was “the woman” and attempts to kill her, but Bob intervenes and saves his wife. Helen and Bob decide “from now on, we won’t know the meaning of the word secret.”
Title on cover and contents page is just "Dark Secret." Previous indexer listed it as "This Terrifying Dark Secret" from splash panel, but the lettering makes it clear that "Dark Secret" is the correct title.
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- Ellyn Lee (credited, signed)
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- For a girl of nearly eighteen you are indeed...
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- non-fiction; advocacy
Ellyn Lee analyses handwriting from two submitted samples.
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- I had always livedin a dream world of illusion...
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- romance
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- Sharon Gray; Mr. Gray; Mrs. Gray; Jimmy Sheldon; David Manners; Mrs. Manners
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- Sharon is fascinated with high society, and thinks her mechanic boyfriend Jimmy is “Dull! Dull!” Sharon has a crush on socialite David and turns down Jimmy’s marriage proposal. She meets and dates David; they fall in love, but Sharon is ashamed of her parents and David’s mother looks down on Sharon. When David learns he’ll be cut off without a cent, he tells Sharon “I’m not trained to earn a living.” They break up and Sharon can’t even go back to Jimmy because he married someone else.
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- Phyllis Pool
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- With winter wind whipping against your face...
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- non-fiction; advocacy
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- beauty hints
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- Lord, if you wish for our love, fling us a...
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- romance
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- Pete Derny; Sonia; Jan Cermak
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- When Pete returns from the war, he tells his girlfriend Sonia he’s not returning to his job as a miner--he plans to become a lawyer. Sonia doesn’t want to wait five years to get married and Pete’s studying leaves little time for romance. Pete changes his mind and returns to the mine because he fears Sonia will leave him for his rival, miner Jan. Pete is trapped in a mine accident and Jan helps rescue him. Sonia tells Pete she’s willing to wait for him until he finishes law school.
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- coal mines
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- Gene Livingstone
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- I know it's irregular for a boy to be writing to...
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- romance
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- Gene Livingstone
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- Gene finds the girl he had been waiting for.
This feature awards a $5.00 prize for the winning letter describing an exciting or memorable experience. Gene Livingstone of Paris, Texas is the writer of this issue's winning letter.
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- Marriage to me was a game, an idyllic...
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- Barbara Williams; Jay Williams; Madge; Helen; Mr. Carson
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- Jay marries the “sheltered” Barbara, who thinks “this business of cooking, cleaning and being a wife” will be “real fun!” Barbara is incompetent at housework and cooking and often shirks her duties, but when Jay is injured due to her carelessness, she changes her ways and “our home is now the well regulated, orderly existence it should be.”
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- Irene Martin (credited)
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- Here is my heart, Tied with a bow;
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An 8 line poem.
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- My allowance is very small and I am worried.
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- non-fiction; advocacy
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- biting finger nails; Christmas gift; definition of P.S.; double date; Napoleon
Questions and answers on various topics of interest.
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- I killed him! I killed my friend!
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- aviation; romance
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- Roger Martin; Leslie; Larry; Lopez; Pepita; Gabby Remsen
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- Airline pilots Roger and Larry compete for the affections of stewardess Leslie. She chooses Roger and they become engaged. Larry reacts badly: “She can’t marry a corpse. And when I kill you, I’ll kill her, too. If I can’t have her, nobody will!” The two men struggle and Larry is killed. Roger flees to Brazil to work for a tramp airline. His new girlfriend Pepita sends Roger back to Leslie. Roger learns Larry didn’t die, so Roger and Leslie can now be married.
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- Brazil; DC-6 airliner
Same story as "I Must Forget Eileen" in Romantic Confessions (Hillman, 1949 Series) v1#3, December 1949. The ending is very slightly changed.
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- Heave to, matey, and bend an ear to...
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Record reviews. Noted are Sammy Kaye, Dinah Shore, Doris Day and Frank Sinatra.