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1940-04-13 Colliers Magazine Contents

1940/04/13 — Cover design by E.M. Jackson

Contents as follows:
SHORT STORIES:

  • “The Lord in His Corner” by Eustace Cockrell and illustrated by Martha Sawyers
  • “Misty” by Grover Jones and illustrated by Earl Blossom
  • “The Pie-Eyed Piper of Hollywood” by Frank Fenton and illustrated by Harry Beckhoff
  • “The Room of Death” by Hugh Wiley and illustrated by Irving Nurick
  • “A Favor for the Cop” — The Short Short Story — by Thomas McMorrow and illustrated by George Howe

    • SERIAL STORIES

  • “The Secret of the Marshbanks” — Part 1 of 12 — by Kathleen Norris and illustrated by Earl Cordrey
  • “Appointment in India” — Part 5 of 10 — by Lawrence G. Blochman and illustrated by Harry Morse Meyers

    • ARTICLES

  • “Her Own Best Bet” by Henry F. Pringle is about playwright Nancy Hamilton
  • “Sheer Magic” by Frank D. Morris
  • “How the Germans Take It” by W.B. Courtney
  • “Ma-ma Mosquito” by Dean S. Jennings is about Madame Chao Yu-tang
  • “Foghorn” by Bob Considine about umpire Bill Klem

    • PLUS:

  • “Keep Up With the World” by Freling Foster
  • Editorial: What the Finns Won with illustration by Arthur Szyk and including a paragraph about Szyk
  • Pullman ad featuring Gracie Allen
  • One-column ad for Gillette featuring New York Yankees Red Rolfe