1940/09/21 -- Cover design by Vernon Grant

Contents as follows:
SHORT STORIES:

  • "The Hanging of Hassan Hangat" by John Russell and illustrated by Martha Sawyers
  • "Twice Dead" by William MacHarg
  • "Mid Pleasures and Palaces" by Thomas McMorrow and illustrated by Gilbert Darling
  • "Sunday Pitch" by Philip Clark and illustrated by Carl Mueller
  • "A Present for Ruth Ann" -- The Short Short Story -- by William Brandon

    • SERIAL STORIES:

  • "The Patriotic Murders" -- Part 8 of 9 -- by Agatha Christie and illustrated by Mario Cooper
  • "Traitor's Purse" -- Part 3 of 10 -- by Margery Allingham

    • ARTICLES:

  • A Spitfire and a Boy by Quentin Reynolds
  • Inside Willkie's Head by Bruce Barton about Wendell Willkie
  • Fit to Be Tied by Henry L. Jackson
  • What Happened to France by Andre Maurois
  • Spare Wheel by Bill Cunningham about the baseball utility man with photos of Lou Finney and Dick West
  • The Man Who Looked Like Napoleon by Herbert Ravenel Sass and illustrated by Herbert Morton Stoops

    • PLUS:

  • Keep Up With the World by Freling Foster
  • Editorials: What Goes On Off Alaska? - P.A.L.'s Pappy