The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction: August 1959 (Volume 17, Number 2)
Cover by Ed Emshwiller (for "Day at the Beach.")

Stories: "Operation Ladybird" by Jay Williams (short novelet)
"Day at the Beach" by Carol Emshwiller
"The Walker-Through-Walls" by Marcel Ayme (reprint from 1943)
"Brave to Be a King" by Poul Anderson ("Time Patrol" series)
"The Rosebud" by Ray Russell
"Empty Nest" by Kit Reed
"Me" (verse) by Hilbert Schenck, Jr.
"Obituary" by Isaac Asimov
"Pact" by Winston P. Sanders (Poul Anderson.)

Science: "The Ultimate Split of the Second" by Isaac Asimov.

Joseph W. Ferman is Publisher, Robert P. Mills is Editor. Book reviews by Damon Knight; "Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot: XVII" by Grendel Briarton (Reginald Bretnor.)