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1941-04-26 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

1941/04/26 — Cover design by John Hyde Phillips.

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

  • “World of Little Doves” by H.L. Davis and illustrated by Tom Lea
  • “The Cold-Water Kiss” by Royce Howes and illustrated by Mortimer Wilson
  • “Mr. Rumbin’s Dix Chunior” by Booth Tarkington and illustrated by Ritchie Cooper
  • “Winter Idyl” by Thomas H. Raddall and illustrated by Courtney Allen
  • “For Your Birthday, William” by Russell Gordon Carter and illustrated by James Anthony Kelly

    • ARTICLES:

  • “Writ on Rocke” by Boyden Sparkes
  • “The Battle of the Balkans” by Demaree Bess
  • “Land of the Jook” by Theodore Pratt
  • “The Desert Shall Blossom” by A.L. Rand and L.J. Brass
  • “The President’s Best Friend” part 2 of 2 by Marquis W. Childs

    • SERIALS:

  • “The Murder of the Fifth Columnist” part 5 of 6 by Leslie Ford and illustrated by Ritchie Cooper
  • “Blood on the Moon” Conclusion by Luke Short and illustrated by Benton Clark

    • MISCELLANY:

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

    • Poems:

  • “Song of War” by Virginia Brasier
  • “Letters from Dorothea” by Ethel Barnett DeVito

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Kelly Springfield Tires, Champion Spark Plugs ad illustrated by Vickers, 3-page ad for the Packard Clipper, Texaco ad illustrated by Albert Dorne, Ford ad with circus themed illustration, Waterman’s Pens with several small sketches of Betty Hutton, Republic Steel ad illustrated by Anton Otto Fischer, Sealed Power Piston Rings ad illustrated by Robert O’Reid*, The Barrett Company illustrated by John Alan Maxwell, and a Camel Cigarettes ad on the back cover. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))