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1940-08-24 Colliers Magazine Contents

1940/08/24 — Cover design by Arthur Crouch

Contents as follows:
SHORT STORIES:

  • “The Big Mistake” by Josephine Bentham and illustrated by Harry Beckhoff
  • “Errand in Bangor” by Henry Meade Williams and illustrated by Harry Morse Meyers
  • “Daring Young Man” by Daniel Fuchs and illustrated by C.C. Beall
  • “The Man She Loved” by John Cheever and illustrated by C.C. Beall
  • “They Think of Everything” — The Short Short Story — by Pat Frank an illustrated by Hardie Gramatky

    • SERIAL STORIES:

  • “The Patriotic Murders” — Part 4 of 9 — by Agatha Christie and illustrated by Mario Cooper
  • “Occupation: Widow” — Part 8 of 9 — by William C. White and illustrated by George Howe

    • ARTICLES:

  • What Happened to France by Andre Maurois
  • Back to School by Henry L. Jackson
  • What Good is West Point? by Henry F. Pringle
  • Part-Time Baseball by Arthur Mann
  • Blow by Blow by Kyle Crichton about Larry Adler

    • PLUS:

  • Keep Up With the World by Freling Foster
  • Editorials: Hemisphere or Quarter-Sphere – State Splitters Weakening – Ladies at the Wheel – The RLA Is Still Working
  • Ad on back cover for Camel Cigarettes features Joe DiMaggio, Bucky Walters and George Case