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1939-04-01 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

1939/04/01 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: Cover design by J.C. Leyendecker.

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

  • “Now, Ripley, Please!” by Booth Tarkington and illustrated by Gilbert Bundy
  • “Photo Finish” by Doug Welch and illustrated by E.F. Ward
  • “Two Eyes, Two Pennies” by James Still and illustrated by Harvey Dunn
  • “Musketeer” by Herbert Ravenel Sass and illustrated by Edward Shenton
  • “Matthew 22:39” by George Sessions Perry & illustrated by Henry Raleigh

    • ARTICLES:

  • “Henny Penny – Farmer at the Treasury” part 1 of 3 by Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner is about Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
  • “Horsemen Race to Eat” by A.J. Liebling
  • “They Need Me Somthing Terrible” by Bob Considine is about Buck Newsom
  • “Sitting in the Sunshine” features photographs taken by Ivan Dmitri
  • “Thunder Over the Southwest” by Flora Warren Seymour

    • SERIALS:

  • “False to Any Man” part 3 of 6 by Leslie Ford and illustrated by Ritchie Cooper
  • “Arizona” part 6 of 8 by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Benton Clark

    • MISCELLANY:

  • Editorials
  • Herbert Johnson’s Cartoon
  • Post Scripts
  • “Advice to Parents” a poem by Kathleen Sutton
  • Keeping Posted.

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Goodrich illustrated by Rube Goldberg, Firestone featuring Floyd Roberts, 2-page color Oldsmobile ad 1987-1939, Chris-Craft*, Kellogg’s All-Bran featuring Mutt and Jeff by Bud Fisher*, Don Budge for Bromo-Seltzer, Buster Brown with color illustration, “How are you planning to go to the New York World’s Fair?” asks Pennslvania Railroad, and a Kodak Film ad on the back cover. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))