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1941-04-05 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

1941/04/05 — Cover design by McCauley Conner

Contents of this issue are as follows:
SHORT STORIES:

  • “You Could Look It Up” by James Thurber and illustrated by Norman Rockwell – With 3 baseball illustrations in color by Rockwell
  • “The Charley Colt” by R. Ross Annett and illustrated by Amos Sewell
  • “It’s a Free Country” by Colin G. Jameson and illustrated by Mortimer Wilson
  • “Necklaces for Ladies” by Sidney Herschel Small and illustrated by Ben Stahl

    • ARTICLES:

  • Poland in Chains by Demaree Bess
  • Ships, Men–and Bases by Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox with Fletcher Pratt
  • Floating Bridges by Lawton Wright about ferry skippers going through Puget Sound
  • Tennis Dizzy Dean by Harold Parrott about Frank Kovacs
  • Too Many Bears! by John F. Cogswell about the Black Bear
  • “We Have Been Betrayed” — Part 3 of a Series — by W. Somerset Maugham

    • SERIALS:

  • “The Murder of the Fifth Columnist” — Part 2 of 6 — by Leslie Ford and illustrated by Ritchie Cooper
  • “Blood on the Moon” — Part 4 of 7 — by Luke Short and illustrated by Benton Clark

    • OTHER FEATURES:

  • Keeping Posted
  • Next Week
  • Editorials
  • Post Scripts

    • Poems:

  • “Plow Handles” by Frances Frost
  • “Formula for Little Girls” by Louis J. Sanker
  • “Guest-Room Door” by Jane Reitell