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1940-12-14 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

1940/12/14 — Cover design by John Hyde Phillips

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

  • “Cape Horn Pilot” by Jacland Marmur and illustrated by Anton Otto Fischer
  • “Then My Indiana Home, Good Night” by MacKinlay Kantor and illustrated by Ritchie Cooper
  • “Snow on the High Iron” by Harry Bedwell and illustrated by Earle B. Winslow
  • “The Sergeant Couldn’t Help It” by Joel Sayre and illustrated by E.F. Ward

    • ARTICLES:

  • Radio’s Best Bedside Manner by Jack Alexander and Frank J. Odell about Raymond Gram Swing
  • Ziegfelds on Ice by Russ Davis
  • Blitzkrieg — The Diary of a British Staff Officer by Marjor Philip Gribble
  • “It’s Our Country, Too” — Can a Negro Fight for His Country? by Walter White

    • SERIALS:

  • “Swamp Water” — Part 4 of 6 — by Vereen Bell and illustrated by Amos Sewell
  • “The Man of the Family” — Part 6 of 7 — by Booth Tarkington and illustrated by Henry Raleigh

    • MISCELLANY:

  • Next Week
  • Keeping Posted
  • Editorials
  • Postscripts
  • “Letter for Christmas” — A Poem by Eva Willes Wangsgaard
  • Santa Claus featured in a Coca-Cola ad on the back cover — “Somebody Knew I Was Coming