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1941-05-31 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

1941/05/31 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: Photographic cover by Sgt. Edward A. Lane.

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

  • “The Green Village” by Margaret Rhodes Peattie and illustrated by Henry Raleigh
  • “The Tall Men” by William Faulkner and illustrated by F.R. Gruger
  • “Not My Story” by Maurice Walsh and illustrated by Floyd Davis
  • “That’s a Woman for You!” by Erle Stanley Gardner and illustrated by Hy Rubin
  • “Angler, Beware!” by Edmund Ware and illustrated by Charles LaSalle

    • ARTICLES:

  • “Tanks from a Cornfield” by Garet Garrett
  • “Eyes in the Skies” by Forbes Parkhill
  • “Market-Maker” by Gerald Breckenridge is about Watson of IBM
  • “Showdown in the Pacific” by Edgar Snow
  • “Can She Milk a Cow?” by Jesse Stuart

    • SERIALS:

  • “The Body in the Library” part 4 of 7 by Agatha Christie and illustrated by Hy Rubin
  • “The Captain from Connecticut” by C.S. Forrester and illustrated by Harold Von Schmidt

    • MISCELLANY:

  • Keeping Posted.
  • Next Week
  • Post Scripts
  • Editorials
  • We See By the Papers

    • Poems:

  • “Sunday Afternoon” by Nellie G. Bordeaux
  • “City Walls” by Martha Keller
  • “Army Wife” by Alexa Byrne Ford

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Pall Mall with color illustration by John Falter, Keds with football player shadows in background illustrated by Alan Hughes, Joe Gordon of the New York Yankees for Fisk Tires, The Barrett Company with b&w illustration by Amos Sewell, and a Coca-Cola ad on the back cover and shown below. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))