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1939-10-14 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

1939/10/14 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: Cover design by H. Wilson Smith.

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

  • “Blowing East” by Philip Wylie and illustrated by James Williamson
  • “I’ll Be Waiting” by Raymond Chandler and illustrated by Hy Rubin
  • “I Am the Clay” by Ruth Burr Sanborn and illustrated by Charles LaSalle
  • “The Venus Mugwump” by Herbert Ravenell Sass and illustrated by Stevan Dohanos (cockfighting)
  • “Two-Gun Slappy Rides Again” by Octavus Roy Cohen and illustrated by George Brehm
  • “–And Iron Men” by Allan R. Bosworth

    • ARTICLES:

  • “Stalin Over Europe” by Demaree Bess
  • “The Money Pit” by Parker Morell
  • “It Was Right When I Brought It In” by P.F. Scally and illustrated by George Shanks
  • “I’m Always on the Spot” by William H. “Red” Friesel with Robert H. Reed
  • “The Bird That’s Not on Nellie’s Hat” by Hermann B. Deutsch with photographs by Ivan Dmitri
  • “Hi-Yo Silver!” by J. Bryan III is about The Lone Ranger radio program on WXYZ Detroit radio and the voice of the Ranger Earle W. Graser. Includes an un-credited illustration (actuallya photo sent out to fans) of The Lone Ranger riding Silver
  • “How to Be Neutral” by Demaree Bess
  • “The Buck of Skookumpuss Peak” by Chester Chatfield

    • SERIALS:

  • “Don’t Ask Questions” part 3 of 7 by J.P. Marquand and illustrated by Henry Raleigh
  • “Back With Her Mother” part 2 of 3 by Agnes Burke Hale and illustrated by John LaGatta

    • MISCELLANY:

  • Editorials
  • Herbert Johnson’s Cartoon
  • Post Scripts
  • “Lay-By Time” a poem by Hope Fair Fielding
  • “Stars and the Land” a poem by Grace Bailey Beacham
  • “Crows” by Keith Thomas
  • “Grave in Vermont” a poem by M. Hopkins
  • Keeping Posted.

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Lambert Pharmacal Co. ad is illustrated by Rea Irvin, full-page color ad for Kool Cigarettes featuring the Kool Penguin playing football, 2-page ad for the Air Transport Association with a full page image of Eleanor Roosevelt knitting on board and the slogan “It Pays to Fly”, Quaker State ad illustrated by Gilbert Bundy*, “The Captain and the Kids” by Rudolph Dirks for Kellogg’s All-Bran*, and a Kix ad on the back cover. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))