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1941-04-19 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

1941/04/19 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: Cover design by Emmett Watson.

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

  • “South Toward Home” by Margaret Weymouth Jackson and illustrated by O.F. Schmidt
  • “Prestige” by Walter Van Tilburg Clark and illustrated by Ben Stahl
  • “A Medal for Albert” by Arch Whitehouse and illustrated by Stevan Dohanos
  • “Two Little Guinea Hens” by Dorothy Thomas and illustrated by Nicholas F. Riley
  • “Peewee” by Don Tracy and illustrated by George Brehm

    • ARTICLES:

  • “The President’s Best Friend” part 1 of 2 by Marquis W. Childs about Harry Hopkins
  • “Nervous Ice: The World’s Diamond Trade Flees the War” by Jack Alexander
  • “Men at Work–Transport Pilot” by Richard Thruelsen and Ivan Dmitri
  • “Hot Heafner — The Firecracker of the Fairways” by Jake Wade
  • “Caboose Cuisine” by Clifford Funkhouser and Lyman Anson
  • “Yes, the Japanese Can Fly” by Hellett Abend
  • “I Fight Sharks” by Wallace Caswell, Jr. as told to Vereen Bell

    • SERIALS:

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

    • MISCELLANY:

  • Keeping Posted.
  • Next Week
  • Editorials
  • Post Scripts

    • Poems:

  • “Short Cut” by Arthur Guiterman
  • “One-and-Twenty” by Branson Blake

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Pall Mall Cigarettes illustrated by John Falter, two-pages for Pontiac in the middle of the issue showing several different models, American Airlines, George Brent for Calox Tooth Powder*, Quaker State with large black & white illustration of the Hindenburg exploding, Goodall Company illustrated by John LaGatta, and an Ivory Soap ad on the back cover. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))