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1939-03-11 Colliers Magazine Contents

1939/03/11 — Cover art by Paul Shively.
Contents as follows:
Short Stories:

  • “Nine Until Three” by Quentin Reynolds & illustrated by Earl Cordrey
  • “Last Look” by William MacHarg & illustrated by Harry L. Timmins
  • Chance is an Enemy” by Frederick Nebel & illustrated by Ralph E. Entwistle
  • “The Wages of Sin-Splitter” by Roark Bradford & illustrated by William Meade Prince

    • The Short Short Story

  • “Love Letter” by Horatio Winslow & illustrated by Walter Klett

    • Serial Stories:

  • “The Green Angel” part 4 of 10 by George F. Worts & illustrated by Harry L. Timmins
  • “The Resounding Skies” part 8 of 10 by Laurence G. Blochman & illustrated by Harry Morse Meyers

    • Articles

  • “Scared Dollars” by John T. Flynn with cartoons by D.R. Fitzpatrick
  • “All Wound Up” about spring hats by Sally Victor
  • “Fiery Little Flower” about Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia by George Britt
  • “As Simple as That” about Floncy Rice (Grantland’s daughter) on the screen by Frank Condon
  • “Horizontal Champions” by Dan Parker
  • “The Man Who Wouldn’t Be Pope” about drama in the Vatican by Thomas B. Morgan

    • Plus:

  • “Keep Up With the World” by Freling Foster
  • Editorial: “Stop Mumbling”
  • Cartoons by Jay Irving, Kay Karaffa, Reamer Keller, A. John Kaunus, Jay Irving, John Milligan, Dick Shaw, Leonard Dove, Laurence Reynolds, Reamer Keller, George Hamilton Green, Hal Sherman, William Steig, John Ruge, Adolph Schus, Harry Haenigsen, Douglas Borgstedt

    • Notable Advertising includes: Auto-Lite Spark Plugs, International Trucks, De Soto, Pontiac, Remington Rand, “Blizzards to Order Help Build Better Cars” is a 2-page ad for Ford Motor Company, “Alphonse and Gaston see Coney Island” for Kellogg’s All-Bran, Nash Auto, Studebaker, “This is the Way to the New York World’s Fair” says Pennsylvania Railroad, “San Francisco 1939” from Californians Inc, Gilette Blades, Old Gold Cigarettes with illustration by George Petty*, Budweiser, Lord Calvert ad on the inside back cover with color illustration by George Hughes, and finally a Camel Cigarettes ad on the back cover with record-holding woman parachute jumper Marie McMillin in a comic strip. (Note * means ad is less than a full page)