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1939-04-08 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

1939/04/08 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: Cover design by Douglass Crockwell.

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

  • “Beginning Now–” by J.P. Marquand and illustrated by Nicholas F. Riley
  • “The Holdout Man” by Glenn Allan and illustrated by Amos Sewell
  • “Second Man” by Jerome Barry and illustrated by Phil Lyford
  • “Private Enemy No. 1” by Arthur Train and illustrated by Arthur William Brown
  • “Dwarf Corn” by Brooke Hanlon and illustrated by Frank Hoffman

    • ARTICLES:

  • “Great Works” by Garet Garrett
  • “That Idea’s Worth Millions” by Frank Parker Stockbridge
  • “The Great World Money Play” part 2 of 3 by Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner about Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
  • “Gambling With Peace” by Demaree Bess

    • SERIALS:

  • “False to Any Man” part 4 of 6 by Leslie Ford and illustrated by Ritchie Cooper
  • “Arizona” part 7 of 8 by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Benton Clark

    • MISCELLANY:

  • Editorials
  • Post Scripts
  • “Swans of the North” a poem by William Rose Benet with drawing by Clayton Knight
  • “The Newlyweds” a poem by Cloyd Mann Criswell
  • Keeping Posted.

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Chesterfield Cigarettes, Packard with color illustrations by John Falter, Old Gold Cigarettes with Petty Girl illustration*, “Take the Train of Tomorrow to the World of Tomorrow” is a New York World’s Fair themed 2-page ad from 20th Century Limited, Kellogg’s Rice Krispies, full-page ad with color illustration for Samuel Goldwyn’s Wuthering Heights, Cecil B. DeMille for Union Pacific*, and a Wheaties ad on the back cover. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))