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1939-08-12 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

1939/08/12 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: Cover design by John Phillips.

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

  • “–And Out Like a Lamb” by David Lamson and illustrated by Harvey Dunn
  • “The Tent” by Virginia Black and illustrated by George Brehm
  • “Tractor Man’s Holiday” by William Hazlett Upson and illustrated by Earle B. Winslow
  • “Last Act, Last Scene” by Almet Jenks and illustrated by Floyd Davis

    • ARTICLES:

  • “Trust Buster, the Folklore of Thurman Arnold” by Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner
  • “Kings Cannot Err” Five Years of Roosevelt–And After by Raymond Moley
  • “Gambling Ship” by Florabel Muir with photographs by Paul Dorsey
  • “What is Moral Rearmament?” by Stanley High

    • SERIALS:

  • “Escape” part 6 of 9 by Ethel Vance and illustrated by Harold Von Schmidt
  • “Logging Fool” conclusion by Robert E. Pinkerton and illustrated by Saul Tepper

    • MISCELLANY:

  • Editorials
  • Post Scripts
  • “Golden Wedding” a poem by Ann Vandenberg Dunshie
  • Keeping Posted.

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: full page ad for Stanley and Livingstone with black & white photos of stars Spencer Tracy, Nancy Kelly, and Richard Greene and an accompanying color illustration of a scene, Gene Sarazen for Bromo-Seltzer*, and an Old Dutch Cleanser ad on the back cover. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))