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1946-01-12 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

1946/01/12 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: Cover design by John Falter.

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

  • “Fire In the Night” by Frank O’Rourke and illustrated by Fred Ludekens
  • “Sing Me a Love Song” by Arthur Gordon and illustrated by Lonnie Bee
  • “Funny Money” by R. Ross Annett and illustrated by Amos Sewell
  • “And One to Grow On” by Virginia Faulkner and illustrated by Alex Ross

    • 9 ARTICLES:

  • “Secrets from Siam” by Edgar Snow
  • “Anyway, the Kids Like Them” by John LaCerda
  • “Trouble in the Northeast” by Arthur W. Baum
  • “Pneumonia Can Be Prevented” by Greer Williams
  • “Kid Capitalist” by Fobres Parkhill
  • “My Three Years With Eisenhower” part 5 of 10 of a diary by Capt. Harry C. Butcher, USNR
  • “The Japs Remember the 1st Marines” by William L. Worden
  • “When Bombs Rained On Us in Tokyo” by Lars Tillitse, Danish Minister to Japan
  • “What You Should Know About Your Discharge Papers” by Robert M. Yoder

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • “The Hidden Heart” part 1 of 4 by Dorothy Black and illustrated by Ben Stahl
  • “The D.A. Breaks a Seal” part 7 of 7 by Erle Stanley Gardner and illustrated by Geoffrey Biggs

    • OTHER FEATURES:

  • Keeping Posted
  • Report to the Editors
  • Post Scripts
  • Editorials
  • Poetry

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Frances Langford for General Electric Radios, Dow Chemical Company illustrated by Arthur Lidov, “More Doctors Smoke Camels Than Any Other Cigarette!” classic ad for Camel Cigarettes, Kate Smith for Stratford Pens*, Decca Records ad featuring several musicians that are “Coming Your Way in 1946” including Guy Lombardo, Bing Crosby, Jimmy Dorsey, Judy Garland, Deanna Durbin, the Andrews Sisters, the Ink Spots, Lionel Hampton, the Mills Brothers, Burl Ives, Ella Fitzgerald and several others!, and a Betty Crocker Pea Soup ad on the back cover. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))