ISSUE DATE: December 26, 1959; Vol. 232, No. 26

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THE COVER: You know Saint Matthew's hallowed words about the wise men who came to Bethlethem, . . . . lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood where the young child was . . . .. And.., they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down and worshipped him." This immortal moment is re-created in Gentile da Fabriano's Adoration of the Magi, now in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Gentile di Niccolo di Giovanni Massi was born in Fabriano, Italy, circa 1370, and much of his painting has been lost; but the flowering time of his art came not long before his death in 1427, and the Adoration was his masterwork. This week, from the snowlands of the North to the summer-lands of the South, hosts of people are spiritually reliving the adoration.

SHORT STORIES:
The Christmas Cotillion . . . ELIZABETH DUNN. Illustrated by JOE DE MERS.
Decision in the Dark . . . WILLIAM HOLDER. Illustrated.
Forbidden Stranger . . . JAN COX SPEAS. Illustrated by R. G. HARRIS.

ARTICLES :
Our Little Miss Hong Kong . . . LEONARD L. LEFKOW.
Adventurer With a Helicopter . . . BOOTON HERNDON.
The Face of America: Training Session . . . Photograph by JACK FIELDS.
Basketball's Moody Marvel -- OSCAR ROBINSON of the University of Cincinnati . . . MILTON GROSS. [NICE, In-depth article, with multiple photos!]
The Sorry Life of Soviet Women . . . TONI HOWARD.
The Jerry Giesler Story, Part VII: I Defend a Mobster . . . JERRY GIESLER, as told to PETE MARTIN.

SERIALS:
Tropic Holiday (Second of four parts) . . . NANCY RUTLEDGE. Illustrated by ROBERT MCCALL.
Violence on the Plains (Sixth of eight pdrts) . . . CHARLES O. LOCKE.

SPECIAL CHRISTMAS SECTION: 22 momentous events from The Life of Christ, Illustrated by the works of Itlaian Masters of the XI to XV Centuries, captioned with passages from the Holy Gospels.

POST SCRIPTS:
He Took the Hint, by Ruth Mueller.
Wisdom of the Aged, by Philene Hammer.
In Both Ears, by Al Wright.
Brief Account, by Richard Wheeler.
Enfeebled English, by Herb Gochros.
KEEPING POSTED: Leonard Lefkow. Elisabeth Dunn, Jan Cox Spears. David Douglas Duncan.
OTHER FEATURES:Letters; Editorials; ;Verse; Hazel.

BACK COVER ad for COCA-COLA featuring a little boy catching HADDON SUNDBLOM's SANTA CLAUS, opening a coke from the fridge!
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