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1941-08-02 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

1941/08/02 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: Cover design by Ski Weld.

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

  • “Powder Puff” by Newlin B. Wildes and illustrated by O.F. Schmidt
  • “Ho-hum, Sir Galahad” by Sophie Kerr and illustrated by Ritchie Cooper
  • “Nuthin’ to Hinder” by Carl D. Lane and illustrated by F.R. Gruger
  • “The Prowl of the Prams” by Frank Leon Smith and illustrated by E.F. Ward

    • ARTICLES:

  • “Britain’s Most Powerful Weapon” by Vincent Sheean
  • “Swing That Pretty Gal!” by Forbes Parkhill
  • “As I Seem to Me” part 4 of 7 by Booth Tarkington (The author on a teen-age hunt for trouble)
  • “He’s Won a Thousand Races” by Hugh S. Fullerton about Doc Parshall

    • SERIALS:

  • “Rendezvous” part 1 of 2 by Alec Hudson and illustrated by Anton Otto Fischer
  • “Silver Spoon” conclusion by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Michael

    • MISCELLANY:

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

    • Poems:

  • “Daniel Webster” by Ethel Barnett DeVito
  • “Battleship” by Martha Keller

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: 2-page ad for Association of American Railroads with b&w illustration by John Vickery, IBM with photo of World Champion Typer, and a Kodak ad on the back cover. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))