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1938-03-26 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

1938/03/26 — ITEM DESCRIPTION:
Cover Design by Neysa McMein.

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

  • “Julia Hires Help” by Margery Sharp and illustrated by James Williamson
  • “The Tongue of the Poet” by Sigman Byrd and illustrated by Henry C. Pitz
  • “Knockout” by Don Tracy and illustrated by Courtney Allen
  • “Ugh, Wilderness!” by Forbes Parkhill and illustrated by E.F. Ward
  • “S O S” by William J. Neidig and illustrated by Amos Sewell

    • ARTICLES:

  • “The Guffey, Biography of a Boss, New Style” by Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner is about Joseph F. Guffey
  • “The White Line Isn’t Enough” by Paul G. Hoffman, President, Automobile Safety Foundation, and President, the Studebaker Corporation, in collaboration with Neil M. Clark
  • “Return of the Native” by Archibald Rutledge
  • “I’m Still Looking for a Yellow Sweet Pea” by David Burpee as told to Frank J. Taylor
  • “Dentures” by Samuel G. Blythe

    • SERIALS:

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

    • MISCELLANY:

  • Editorials
  • Herbert Johnson’s Cartoon
  • Post Scripts
  • “Feather Chain” by Marvin Miller
  • Keeping Posted

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Camel Cigarettes ad with record-smashing auto driver Wilbur Shaw, 2-page ad for Oldsmobile and its 40th AnniversarySonja Henie for Dodge, “Theodora Goes Wild About Her New DeSoto” is a DeSoto ad featuring an illustration of Irene Dunne leaving the Brown Derby and getting into her DeSoto, and an Old Dutch Cleanser ad on the back cover. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))