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1939-08-26 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

1939/08/26 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: Cover design by Charles E. Kerlee.

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

  • “A Good Night’s Work” by Joel Sayre and illustrated by E.F. Ward
  • “Times Have Changed” by Ben Ames Williams and illustrated by Anton Otto Fischer
  • “The Big Stick” by John Jennings and illustrated by Matt Clark
  • “Hop Man’s Daughter” by Charles Alexander and illustrated by Earle B. Winslow

    • ARTICLES:

  • “Boss on the Spot” by Jack Alexander is about Enoch Lewis Johnson
  • “Where Anything Can Happen” by Courtney Ryley Cooper
  • “There’s One Issue … It’s Myself!” Five Years of Roosevelt–And After by Raymond Moley
  • “Nazi Germany’s First Colony” by Demaree Bess

    • SERIALS:

  • “Double for Death” part 2 of 7 by Rex Stout and illustrated by John Gannam
  • “Escape” part 8 of 9 by Ethel Vance and illustrated by Harold Von Schmidt

    • MISCELLANY:

  • Editorials
  • Herbert Johnson’s Cartoon
  • Post Scripts
  • “Call of Far Places” a poem by Louise J. Sanker
  • “To the New Owner” a poem by Lucile Hargrove Reynolds
  • “Some Other Time” a poem by Eleanor Graham
  • Keeping Posted.

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Chesterfield Cigarettes, 2-page color ad from Oldsmobile in the center spread with Bing Crosby featured in a 1910 Olds Limited and on the facing page in a 1939 Olds Convertible, full-page color ad for The Wizard of Oz which I’ve scanned and is shown below (ad has 3/4″ tear into bottom edge), and a Coca-Cola ad on the back cover and shown below. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))