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1942-05-09 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

1942/05/09 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: Cover design by W.W. Calvert.

Complete contents picked up from the contents page of this issue are as follows:
SHORT STORIES:

  • “The Skipper’s Flag” by Jacland Marmur and illustrated by Anton Otto Fischer
  • “A Plague Upon You, Mrs. B.” by Colin G. Jameson and illustrated by Mortimer Wilson
  • “A Girl Can Remember” by David Lamson and illustrated by John F. Gould
  • “Escape from Djibouti” by Ida Treat and illustrated by Mead Schaffer
  • “The Bear” by William Faulkner and illustrated by Edward Shenton

    • ARTICLES:

  • “Hunger Won’t Beat the Axis” by Karl Brandt
  • “Tenth Man on a Ball Club” by Tom Meany
  • “What Hitler Wants You to Think” with cartoons by Kemp Starrett of Hitler whispering in the ear of both Uncle Sam and John Bull
  • “Not Quite Heaven” by Dr. George Lawton
  • “Headaches of a Headwaiter” by Maurice Zolotow
  • “The People Nobody Wants” by Frank J. Taylor
  • “War Slang” by William D. Bayles

    • SERIALS:

  • “Assignment in Brittany” part 2 of 8 by Helen MacInnes and illustrated by Stevan Dohanos
  • “Ride the Man Down” part 6 of 7 by Luke Short and illustrated by Matt Clark

    • MISCELLANY:

  • Next Week
  • Keeping Posted
  • Editorials
  • Post Scripts

    • POEMS:

  • “A Son Remembers His Mother” by Joseph Auslander
  • “Caprice” by Louise Owen

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Philco ad drawn by Herbert Johnson with Uncle Sam hitting Hitler with an uppercut, General Tire ad with color illustration by Robert O’Reid, Lucky Strikes from painting by John Steurt Curry, Rita Hayworth for Chesterfield Cigarettes on inside back cover.