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1936-12-05 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

1936/12/05 — ITEM DESCRIPTION:
Cover design by Frances Tipton Hunter.

Complete contents picked up from the contents page of this issue are as follows:
SHORT STORIES:

  • “The Toad Men of Tumbaroo: Mr. Glencannon Swallows a Tall Tale and Helps Cook Up Another” by Guy Gilpatric and illustrated by Anton Otto Fischer
  • “The Seduction of Lester Shermerhorn” by Henry Anton Steig and illustrated by Galbraith
  • “Troy Weight” by J.P. Marquand and illustrated by F.R. Gruger
  • “Trade Last” by Frank Bunce and illustrated by Ralph Pallen Coleman
  • “Vendee” by William Faulkner and illustrated by F.R. Gruger

    • ARTICLES:

  • “I Saw America” by David Lawrence
  • “Life on the Desert” by Frank Condon and illustrated by Galbraith
  • “The Wilsons: Campus Controversies” by Eleanor Wilson McAdoo in Collaboration with Margaret Y. Gaffey
  • “We Can Defend America: Pity the Poor Taxpayer” by General Johnson Hagood
  • “I Was So Scared …” by Jay Berwanger, All-American Half-back, University of Chicago and Bob Graf, Jr.
  • “Britons Shall Never Be Slaves” by F. Britten Austin

    • SERIALS:

  • “Poirot Loses a Client” Part 5 of 7 by Agatha Christie and illustrated by Henry Raleigh
  • “Lifer” Part 3 of 6 by Charles Francis Coe and illustrated by Robert W. Crowther

    • MISCELLANY:

  • Editorials
  • Postscripts
  • “Country Cellars” a poem by Leona Ames Hill
  • Keeping Posted
  • Full-page color ad from The Macmillan Company advertising the book “Gone With the Wind” by Margaret Mitchell with illustrated images of characters from the story