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1939-02-11 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

1939/02/11 — ITEM DESCRIPTION:
Cover Design by Norman Rockwell.

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

  • “I Will Do My Best” by MacKinlay Kantor and illustrated by F.R. Gruger
  • “We Go Fast?” by Doug Welch and illustrated by James Williamson
  • “Two Pounds Off” by Price Day and illustrated by E.F. Ward
  • “The Message to Hassan Beg” by Marjory Stoneman Douglas and illustrated by Amos Sewell

    • ARTICLES:

  • “Not-So-Free Air” by Stanley High
  • “Gabby Likes ‘Em Hot” by Warren Brown is about Gabby Hartnett
  • “Lincoln and Son” by Nicholas Murray Butler
  • “As I Saw It” part 8 of 11 by Edith Bolling Wilson

    • SERIALS:

  • “These, Her Children” part 1 of 2 by Almet Jenks and illustrated by Henry Raleigh
  • “Wickford Point” part 3 of 7 by J.P. Marquand and illustrated by Henry Raleigh

    • MISCELLANY:

  • Editorials
  • Herbert Johnson’s Cartoon
  • Post Scripts
  • “Mill Talk” a poem by Leslie Nelson Jennings with color illustration by Larry B. Kritcher
  • “Ax in the Morning” a poem by Gene Shuford
  • Keeping Posted

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Packard Six and 120 with color illustration by John Falter, large photo of Mickey Rooney in full-page ad for Huckleberry Finn, and a Coca-Cola ad on the back cover and shown below. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))