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Table of Contents

I Fell Eighteen Thousand Feet Without a Parachute
by Nicholas Stephen Alkemade
Page II
William Penn-Pioneer of Democracy
by Donald Culross Peattie
Page 19
The Lives of the Penguins
by G. Murray Levick
Page 26
The Mysterious Power of Human Sight
by Sir Charles Sherrington
Page 37
The 'Impossible' Race from Peking to Paris
by J. D. Ratcliff
Page 42
What Is Profit?
by Fred I. Kent
Page 48
Transaction in Tahiti
by James Norman Hall
Page 53
Boy on a Raft
by Eric Davis
Page 59
Churchill-Greatness in Our Time
by Mark Sullivan
Page 64
Pierre and Marie-The Story of the Curie
by Eve Curie
Page 67
The Enemy's Masterpiece of Espionage
by J. Edgar Hoover
Page 91
Britain's Comet Opens the Age of Jet Travel
by James Dugan
Page 98
Norway: Home of the Viking Spirit
by Max Eastman
Page 103
–And the Deaf Shall Hear
by Lois Mattox Miller
Page 109
Elizabeth II: The Commonwealth's Queen
by Francis and Katharine Drake
Page 115
The Secret of the Aurora
by Ruth and Edward Brecher
Page 132
The Owls in Our House
by Farley Mowat
Page 137
When the Curtains of Death Parted
by Dr. Martin Sampson
Page 144
The Amazing Crusoes of Lonesome Lake
by Leland Stowe
Page 149
The Art of Understanding Other People
by Clarence Hall
Page 179
The Archer-Shee Case
by Alexander Woollcott
Page 183
Miss Victoria
by Patricia Strauss
Page 191
Holland's Greatest Disaster Since the Middle Ages
by Blake Clark
Page 195
At Last, Tyres Without Tubes
by Myron Stearns
Page 200
Galileo-Bold Discoverer
by Donald Culross Peattie
Page 204
The Day We Flew the Kites
by Frances Fowler
Page 212
The Voice of 'The Thunderer'
by George Kent
Page 216
Know Your Skin
by Elsie McCormick
Page 225
The Day Skating Mastered Me
by Cornelia Otis Skinner
Page 230
A Man Against Insanity
by Paul de Kruif
Page 235
This, Too, Is Infidelity
by The Rev. Margaret Blair Johnstone
Page 267
Watchdog of the Atomic Age
by Samuel Burger
Page 272
The Horse That Became a Legend
by Harland Manchester
Page 276
Santos-Dumont: The Father of Flight
by Marion Lowndes
Page 282
A Minister's Mail
by Joseph Fort Newton
Page 290
Submarine in Action
by Bartimeus
Page 295
The Most Unforgettable Character I've Met
by Dr. Robert Baird McClure and Dorothy Wal...
Page 303
God and My Father
by Clarence Day
Page 309
Blue River in the Sea
by A. H. Z. Carr
Page 318
I Married Adventure
by Osa Johnson
Page 323
The Highroad of the Future
by Winston S. Churchill
Page 351
Sixty-eight Against the Sea
by Carl B. Wall
Page 358
Father Flanagan's Toughest Customer
by Fulton Oursler
Page 367
Passed with Flying Colours
by James Warner Bellah
Page 374
ABC of the Atom
by Doctor J. Bronowski
Page 376
The Most Unforgettable Character I've Met
by Andromache Schliemann Melas
Page 384
Britain's 'Death and Glory Boys' Deactivate Unexploded Bombs
by Linton Wells
Page 392
Einstein, A Study in Simplicity
by Edwin Muller
Page 398
Exploits of Alice, the Circus Elephant
by Bruce Hutton
Page 403
Man: An Autobiography
by George R. Stewart
Page 409
The Greater Gift
by A. J. Cronin
Page 447
How Your Nose Knows
by Ruth and Edward Brecher
Page 452
The Epic Human Story of a Great Bridge
by Edwin Muller
Page 456
Pigs is Pigs
by Ellis Parker Butler
Page 464
Fourteen Days of Hell on an Ice-cap
by C. B. Wall
Page 471
Hari Pogo and His Ex-Cannibals
by Tom Ham
Page 480
Hawaii: A State of Happiness
by James A. Michener
Page 487
Erika and the King of Nepal
by Erika Leuchtag
Page 494
Paris-Underground
by Etta Shiber
Page 503
Man's Newest and Loveliest Adventure
by George Kent
Page 545
The Genius of Samuel Morse
by Kurt Steel
Page 550
Bone Bending in the Jungle
by William LaVarre
Page 556
We Want Her for Always
by Carlton E. Morse and Joe Alvin
Page 560
St. George for Zeebrugge!
by Jo Chamberlin
Page 565
The Most Unforgettable Character I've Met
by James Saxon Childers
Page 571
The Conscious Use of the Subconscious Mind
by Robert R. Updegraff
Page 578
Here's Something Really New – and Strange — in Plastics
by Harland Manchester
Page 582
History as Tree Rings Tell It
by Florence M. Hawley and Neil M. Clark
Page 587
Seven Years Solitary
by Edith Bone
Page 591
"So Dear to My Heart"
by Sterling North
Page 599
Sister Kenny Versus Infantile Paralysis
by Lois Mattox Miller
Page 630
The Crow
by Charlton Ogburn, Jr.
Page 638
The Indispensable Opposition
by Walter Lippmann
Page 643
"Take Cover!"
by George Graham
Page 649
God's Eager Fool
by The Rev. John A. O'Brien
Page 664
Some Enchanted Moments
by J. B. Priestley
Page 671
He Never Asked That a Thing Be Easy
by Virginia Gordon
Page 680
The Miracle of "The Messiah"
by Doron Antrim
Page 685
The Cruise of the Raider Wolf
by Roy Alexander
Page 689

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