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1940-06-01 Liberty Magazine Contents

1940/06/01 — ITEM DESCRIPTION:
Cover by Alden Weeks

Contents as follows:
EDITORIAL:

  • War With Japan–A Possibility!! by Bernarr Macfadden

    • SHORT STORIES

  • “I’ll Love You Till I Die” by Micheline Keating and illustrated by Phil Lyford
  • “Ed Shoots It Out” by Walter Brooks
  • “Big Shot” — Liberty’s Short Shot by Paul Jones
  • “Old Man’s Heart” by Phyllis Duganne and illustrated by James Schucker

    • SERIALS:

  • “Wings of Wrath” — Part III — by Oscar Schisgall and illustrated by Charles LaSalle
  • “Born to Kill” — Part II — by Alan Hynd and illustrated by Jo Kotula
  • “Tales Out of School” — Part IV — by A Senator’s Daughter

    • ARTICLES:

  • We Have No Army! by Lieut. Gen. Robert Lee Bullard
  • I Married a Latin by Grace Hegger Lewis and illustrated by Roy Prohaska
  • The Jobs We Want by Betsey Barton
  • The Smartest Man in Baseball by Harlan Eugene Read is about Branch Rickey
  • Horror on the Abigail by Eight Famous Authors — A case is presented and “solved” by the authors, who are Rex Stout, Philip Wylie, Kurt Steel, Achmed Abdullah, Anthony Abbot, Clarissa Fairchild Cushman, Frank Gruber with introduction by Edward Doherty and illustrated by Benton Clark
  • Announcing the Prize Winning Liberty Town Hall Cartoons
  • Death in the Bonfire by Frederick L. Collins

    • FEATURES:

  • Movie Reviews by Beverly Hills
  • Crossword Puzzle
  • To the Ladies by Princess Alexandra Kropotkin
  • $2,000 Bernarr Macfadden Editorial Quotation Contest
  • Vox Pop
  • Coca-Cola ad on the inside front cover
  • Alcoa ad with color illustration by James Montgomery Flagg on the inside back cover