| 1. History of New York City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 1 |
| 2. How I spent my Summer Vacation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 4 |
| 3. A Big-City Newspaper Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 7 |
| 4. The Fanatical Spectator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 10 |
| 5. Harley Henderson's Airlines for the Oldsters . . . . . . . . . | 12 |
| 6. Personality Components, Ready to Wear . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 15 |
| 7. "Peyton Place" Revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 17 |
| 8. Trains of Nightmarish Thoughts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 19 |
| 9. Letter to an Escaper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 21 |
| 10. The Last Few Days of Shopping Before Christmas . . . . . . . . | 23 |
| 11. Musical Intros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 25 |
| 12. What Does Your Handwriting Tell You? . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 28 |
| 13. The World's Smartest Man--Mr. Know-It-All . . . . . . . . . . | 31 |
| 14. Dr. Fluegel's Medical Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 34 |
| 15. The Violin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 37 |
| 16. The Population Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 39 |
| 17. The Automatic Elevator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 41 |
| 18. Maniac-Killer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 43 |
| 19. Interesting New Yorkers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 46 |
| 20. Disaster Films--Low-Budget Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 48 |
| 21. Real Estate Spoken Here . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 50 |
| 22. Miss Weirdo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 52 |
| 23. Order in the Court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 54 |
| 24. The Memory of a Fish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 56 |
| 25. Little-Known Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 58 |
| 26. Those Late Night World War II Movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 60 |
| 27. A Blind Date for Little Awesome Fannie . . . . . . . . . . . . | 65 |
| 28. My Fun Trip to New York City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 68 |
| 29. Whatever Happened To...? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 72 |
| 30. Gossip Through the Ages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 75 |
| 31. And Now Coming to You Live . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 78 |
| 32. Dear Gabby's Advice to Prisoners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 81 |
| 33. Meet David Punkrock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 84 |
| 34. Understanding Those Football Referees . . . . . . . . . . . . | 87 |
| 35. Vicarious Vacations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 89 |
| 36. The Car Accident . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 93 |
| 37. Power! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 96 |
| 38. Really Cooking Now . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 98 |
| 39. Review of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre . . . . . . . . . . | 100 |
| 40. Doomsday Spiel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 103 |
| 41. The Subway Ride . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 106 |
| 42. Professor Paul Pushner's Positive Approach | |
| Personality Improvement Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 111 |
| 43. Uncle Harry Takes Nephew Ethelbert to the Zoo . . . . . . . . | 114 |
| 44. Down Memory Lane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 117 |
| 45. Reading Your Local Newspaper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 121 |
| 46. Rent-A-Car . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 124 |
| 47. The Finest Restaurants Around . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 127 |
| 48. Pet Peeves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 130 |
| 49. Stories Granny Likes to Tell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 133 |
| 50. Phobias, Anyone? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 136 |