The Magazine of the Year, July 1947

A hand-tinted cover featuring a woman in a yellow shirt with flowers in her dark hair, smiling in three-quarter profile. She holds a decorative fan with peacock feathers. The cover announces "Living with the Bomb" by Stuart Chase and "Birth Control: New Style"—topics reflecting postwar anxieties and social change. At thirty-five cents, The Magazine of the Year competed in a crowded market of general-interest monthlies that blended celebrity photography, serious journalism, and popular fiction. The cover's emphasis on feminine beauty and domestic themes was typical of the era's mass-market magazines, which addressed both consumer culture and emerging Cold War concerns through accessible design and vibrant color printing.