Contents
IN THIS ISSUE, May 14, 1960 Vol. 232, No. 46
4 Short Stories
9 Articles
Other Features
Any resemblance between Philatelist Phil and the master of a household is strictly the product of a fertile imagination. "You stay right where you are, daddy," Phil's titian-haired daughter has just advised him. "You aren't bothering us one little bit." Well, how is a father to know that the patter of little feet will develop into something resembling an elephant's convention, with guitar accompaniment? The lesson in Dick Sargent's cover painting is, of course, that stamps and stomps cannot coexist. Father took up stamp collecting because he always had wanted to be a postman, never dreaming that neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night nor stamp collectors will stay a group of teen-age troubadours from the noisy completion of their appointed rounds.
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