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1940-05-04 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

1940/05/04 — ITEM DESCRIPTION:
Cover design by John Hyde Phillips.

Complete contents picked up from the contents page of this issue are as follows:
SHORT STORIES:

  • “The Man Who Cooked by Ear” by David Lamson and illustrated by L.R. Gustavson
  • “Blitzkrieg in a Tourist Camp” by Royce Howes and illustrated by Karl Godwin
  • “Whar I Was Born In” by Gordon Malherbe Hillman and illustrated by Charles LaSalle
  • “McQuillan Fells the McMiv” by Frank Leon Smith and illustrated by E.F. Ward

    • ARTICLES:

  • “Spy and Counter Spy” by Emanuel V. Voska with Will Irwin
  • “Joe Lucky” by J.P. McEvoy is about Clark Gable
  • “Here are Your Wings” by Wolfgang Langewiesche
  • “What’s the Matter With Bob Taft?” by Alice Roosevelt Longworth
  • “The Paralyzed Purse” by John Lardner
  • “Crashing Hollywood at Sixty” by Gertrude W. Hoffman

    • SERIALS:

  • “Quick Service” part 1 of 8 by P.G. Wodehouse and illustrated by Gilbert Bundy
  • “Reap the Wild Wind” part 2 of 6 by Thelma Strabel and illustrated by Harold Von Schmidt

    • MISCELLANY:

  • Next Week
  • Keeping Posted
  • Editorials
  • Post Scripts

    • We See By the Papers

    POEMS:

  • “Piney-Woods Diplomacy” by Evantha Caldwell
  • “Spring Morning” by Eleanor Alletta Chaffee

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Aluminum Company of America ad with illustration by James Montgomery Flagg, and a Coca-Cola ad on the back cover.