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1938-08-06 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

1938/08/06 — Cover design by Paul Hesse

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

  • “Spoil the Child” by Howard Fast and illustrated by Benton Clark
  • “McWinney Shoots a Birdie” by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Ritchie Cooper
  • “One Hour to Wait” by Charles C. Clifford and illustrated by Benton Clark
  • “Man of Ice” by Joel Barnett and illustrated by Gordon Grant

    • ARTICLES:

  • The Second Russo-Japanese War Is On by Demaree Bess
  • Who Knows What Is Funny? by Alva Johnston with four photos of W.C. Fields including one with John Barrymore
  • Sailor on Horseback by Irving Stone is about Jack London
  • We Hit the High Spots by Carl Melzer as told to Forbes Parkhill
  • There Were Giants in Those Days by Tom Wallace

    • SERIALS:

  • “The Code of the Woosters” — Part 4 of 8 — by P.G. Wodehouse and illustrated by Wallace Morgan
  • Mr. Moto Is So Sorry” — Part 6 of 7 — by J.P. Marquand and illustrated by F.R. Gruger

    • MISCELLANY:

  • Editorials
  • Herbert Johnson’s Cartoon
  • Post Scripts

    • Poems:

  • “A Prayer for Dogs” by Goldie Capers Smith
  • “Sanctuary” by Archibald Rutledge

    • “Heat” by Margaret McGarvey

  • Keeping Posted
  • Wheaties ad on back cover includes large image of Yankees Joe DiMaggio swinging his bat