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1939-01-28 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

1939/01/28 — ITEM DESCRIPTION:
Cover Design by Walt Otto.

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

  • “Young Ames Fights a Fire” by Walter D. Edmonds and illustrated by Harvey Dunn
  • “Redbeard the Pirate’s Perfect Day” by Horatio Winslow and illustrated by E.F. Ward
  • “plumb Dumb” by R. Ross Annett and illustrated by Amos Sewell
  • “Baldy Bill Takes a Wife” by Albert Richard Wetjen and illustrated by Rico Tomaso

    • ARTICLES:

  • “Brainstorm Department” by J.C. Furnas
  • “Seconds Out!” by Richard McCann
  • “As I Saw It” part 7 of 11 by Edith Bolling Wilson
  • “Uncle Sam’s Children” by Robert M. Hutchins, President, The University of Chicago

    • SERIALS:

  • “Wickford Point” part 1 of 7 by J.P. Marquand and illustrated by Henry Raleigh
  • “Streamlined Heart” part 4 of 5 by Samson Raphaelson and illustrated by John Le Gatta

    • MISCELLANY:

  • Editorials
  • Herbert Johnson’s Cartoon
  • Post Scripts
  • “The Snowplows” a poem by Charles Malam
  • Keeping Posted

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: a full page ad for Gunga Din with Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., color photo of Myrna Loy for DeSoto, Chevrolet for 1939, 1939 Dodge Luxury Liner, “Children Like Dole Pineapple Juice” with full page photo by Grancel Fitz, movie ad for Topper Takes a Trip with Constance Bennett and Roland Young*, the Mercury 8 from Ford on the inside back cover, and an Old Dutch Cleanser ad on the back cover. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))