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1939-04-29 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

1939/04/29 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: Cover design by Norman Rockwell.

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

  • “Who’s Running This Sales Department, Anyway?” by William Hazlett Upson and illlustrated by Earle B. Winslow
  • “Writers Believe Their Stories” by Ruth Rodney King and illustrated by R.G. Harris
  • “Instinct Ain’t Thinkin'” by Royce Howes and illustrated by O.F. Schmidt
  • “Day of Rest” by Ben Ames Williams and illustrated by Charles LaSalle

    • ARTICLES:

  • “America Goes to Town” by Paul G. Hoffman, With Neil M. Clark
  • “Stalin Appeases Hitler” by W.G. Krivitsky, former General in the Red Army
  • “Baseball Gets ‘Em Too Young” by Justin M. “Sam” Barry with Ralph F. Shawhan
  • “They Love Us, They Love Us Not” by Edgar Snow
  • “Swan Song” by Victor H. Cahalane

    • SERIALS:

  • “Twenty-first Crossing, West” part 1 of 3 by Elizabeth Dunn and illustrated by Arthur William Brown
  • “Uncle Fred in the Springtime” part 2 of 6 by P.G. Wodehouse and illustrated by James Williamson

    • MISCELLANY:

  • Editorials
  • Herbert Johnson’s Cartoon
  • Post Scripts
  • “Oasis” a poem by Jospeh Auslander
  • Keeping Posted.

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Goodrich ad illustrated by Rube Goldberg, Camel Cigarettes, Columbia Pictures says to ask your theatre when the next Blondie picture will be shown with Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake*, Jimmy Dorsey for Bromo-Seltzer*, Suitcase Simpson’s Recovery by Fontaine Fox for Kellogg’s All-Bran, and a Sunkist California Lemons ad on the back cover. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))