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1940-05-11 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

1940/05/11 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: Cover design by J.C. Leyendecker.

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

  • “Hurry-Up Johnny” by Sidney Herschel Small and illustrated by Rico Tomaso
  • “The Hunting Fool” by Vereen Bell and illustrated by Frank B. Hoffman
  • “The Handkerchiefs” by Dorothy Thomas with full-page color illustration by Norman Rockwell
  • “Captains Together” by Richard Howells Watkins and illustrated by Courtney Allen
  • “The Customer is Right” by Marguerite F. Eyssen and illustrated by Nicholas F. Riley

    • ARTICLES:

  • “Our Election and Europe’s War” by Demaree Bess
  • “Louisiana Revolution” by Alva Johnston
  • “We Trail the Dynamiters” by Emanuel V. Voska with Will Irwin
  • “He Won’t Be Boss” by Arthur Mann about New York Yankees’ Art Fletcher
  • “Mrs. Shipley Says No” by Maxine Davis

    • SERIALS:

  • “Quick Service” part 2 of 8 by P.G. Wodehouse and illustrated by Gilbert Bundy
  • “Reap the Wild Wind” part 3 of 6 by Thelma Strabel and illustrated by Harold Von Schmidt

    • MISCELLANY:

  • Next Week
  • Keeping Posted
  • Editorial Page
  • Post Scripts
  • Herbert Johnson’s Cartoon

    • POEMS:

  • “Tornado” by Mary Elizabeth Counselman
  • “Old Charlie Rouster” by Mattie-Lou Blackwood
  • “The Minutes of the Meeting” by Berton Braley

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: International Trucks on the inside front cover, Pall Mall Cigarettes, Pan American Airways, Spencer Tracy in “Edison the Man”.