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1938-03-19 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

1938/03/19 — ITEM DESCRIPTION:
Cover Design by John Newton Howitt.

Complete contents from the contents page is as follows:
SHORT STORIES:

  • “Young Ames” by Walter D. Edmonds and illustrated by Harvey Dunn
  • “Avenue of Escape” by Eleanor Mercein is about John La Gatta
  • “Mr. Tutt Goes Fishing” by Arthur Train and illustrated by Arthur William Brown
  • “Maintenance” by Leland Jamieson and illustrated by Denman Fink

    • ARTICLES:

  • “China’s No. 1 White Boy” by H.B. Elliston is about William Henry Donald
  • “New Minor League–the National?” by Tom Meany
  • “Down-East Ambrosia” by Kenneth Roberts includes a full-page color painting by Norman Rockwell of an old woman peeling apples and a boy on the ground beside her shining his boots
  • “Big Business Has Troubles, Too” by Jesse Rainsford Sprague

    • SERIALS:

  • “Free Land” part 3 of 8 by Rose Wilder Lane and illustrated by Benton Clark
  • “The Gay Banditti” part 4 of 5 by I.A.R. Wylie and illustrated by Henry Raleigh

    • MISCELLANY:

  • Editorials
  • Herbert Johnson’s Cartoon
  • Post Scripts
  • “March in Oregon” a poem by Genneva Dickey Watson
  • “Sugar Weather” a poem by Ethel Romig Fuller
  • Keeping Posted

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Chevrolet, “The Girl I Love Can’t Take a Joke” ad for Cryst-O-Mint Life Savers, “This is the Chessie Corridor” ad for the Chesapeake and Ohio Lines*, “Gone From the Wind” via Pullman, United Air Lines*, Sealed Power Piston Rings with large color illustration by Harry Anderson, Lincoln Zephyr V-12, , and a Wheaties ad on the back cover and shown below featuring all of the following baseball stars – Joe Cronin, Gabby Hartnett, Charles Gehringer, Luke Sewell, Mel Ott, Bob Feller, Carl Hubbell, Paul Waner, Louis Fette, Lefty Gomez, Joe Medwick, and Joe DiMaggio. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))