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1939-09-23 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

1939/09/23 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: Cover design by Crosby DeMoss.

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

  • “Variation on a Theme” by Paul Gallico & illustrated by Ritchie Cooper
  • “The Big Ones Get Away” by Philip Wylie and illustrated by James Williamson
  • “Henry and the Golden Mine” by Stephen Vincent Benet and illustrated by Tom Lea
  • “Swing Your Partner, Hector!” by Sigman Byrd and illustrated by Floyd Davis

    • ARTICLES:

  • “Pigskin Preview of 1939” by Francis Wallace opens with a large photo of Bad News Cafego and then includes several smaller photos of other players
  • “Funny Man” by J. Bryan III is about Robert Benchley
  • “One to Make a Bargain” by Garet Garrett with cartoons by Herbert Johnson
  • “The Yanks Are Coming–Back” by Stewart H. Holbrook

    • SERIALS:

  • “Double for Death” part 6 of 7 by Rex Stout and illustrated by John Gannam
  • “Behold the Brown-Faced Men” conclusion by MacKinlay Kantor with illustration by Benton Clark

    • MISCELLANY:

  • Editorials
  • Herbert Johnson’s Cartoon
  • Post Scripts
  • “Fiddler by Lamplight” a poem by Irene Carlisle
  • “Incident to Progress” a poem by Baron Ireland
  • Keeping Posted.

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Chesterfield Cigarettes, Connie Mack (illustrated) for Veedol*, W.C. Fields for Permutit*, 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 (*))