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1939-08-19 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

1939/08/19 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: Cover design by Frances Tipton Hunter.

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

  • “Billy and You” by Herbert M. Alexander and illustrated by O.F. Schmidt
  • “Spring Over Brooklyn” by Zachary Gold and illustrated by Gilbert Bundy
  • “The Old Crawdad” by Philip Wylie and illustrated by James Williamson
  • “This Mysterious ‘They'” by Jerome Weidman and illustrated by William Meade Prince
  • “A Salmon for the White House” by Arthur Train and illustrated by Arthur William Brown

    • ARTICLES:

  • “Freight Trains on Our Highways” by Magner White
  • “Baseball’s Ugly Duckling — Durable Durocher” by Arthur Mann about Leo Durocher
  • “Heaven or Bust” Five Years of Roosevelt–And After by Raymond Moley
  • “How Japan Carries On” by Hallett Abend

    • SERIALS:

  • “Double for Death” part 1 of 7 by Rex Stout and illustrated by John Gannam
  • “Escape” part 7 of 9 by Ethel Vance and illustrated by Harold Von Schmidt

    • MISCELLANY:

  • Editorials
  • Herbert Johnson’s Cartoon
  • Post Scripts
  • “Aunt Betsy” a poem by Irene T. Dague
  • Keeping Posted.

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Kool Cigarettes with the Kool Penguin, TWA feuled by Texaco, Sam Snead for Bromo-Seltzer*, full page color ad for Kellogg’s Rice Krispies with early Snap Crackle and Pop characters, Alphonse and Gaston See Coney Island for Kellogg’s All-Bran, Life Savers with photo of the 250-foot Life Savers Parachute Jump at the New York World’s Fair*, and a Sunkist ad on the back cover. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))