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1946-02-23 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

1946/02/23 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: Cover design by Albert Staehle.

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

  • “Dorrit Remembers a Riddle” by Frank Bunce and illustrated by Gilbert Bundy
  • “The Greatest Victory” is baseball fiction by Frank O’Rourke and illustrated by James R. Bingham
  • “The Perfect Gentleman” by Willard H. Temple and illustrated by Lonnie Bee
  • “Schooma’ams Shouldn’t Be Pretty” by Zachary Ball and illustrated by Paul Rabut

    • NOVELETTE:

  • “Major Engagement” by Edward Hope and illustrated by Robert G. Harris

    • 10 ARTICLES:

  • “This Is How It Was” part 1 of 4 by Lt. Col. James P.S. Devereux, USMC as told to Lt. Comdr. J. Bryan, III, USNR with drawing by Robert Fawcett
  • “Glamour Boys of the Highway” by Wessel Smitter
  • “Sourpuss Bill” by Florabel Muir is about William Demarest
  • “The Czechs Take the Big Step: by Demaree Bess
  • “$100,000,000,000 Going Down the Drain” by Louis W. DeYong
  • “82nd Airborne, Master of the Hotspots” by Martha Gellhorn
  • “They Major in Tennis at Rollins” by Collie Small
  • “Tokyo Street Scene”
  • “He’s Doing Something About the Race Problem” by Hodding Carter
  • “Veterans Can’t Study With Kids” by Arline Britton Boucher and John Leo Tehan

    • SERIAL:

  • “A Frenchman Must Die: part 3 of 8 by Kay Boyle and illustrated by Robert Fawcett

    • OTHER FEATURES:

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

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Mercury ad illustrated by Ronald McLeod, Old Gold Cigarettes illustrated by Clark Agnew, Gulfpride Oil illustrated by James Bingham, Babe Ruth for Jockey Underwear* — drawing of Ruth at the plate, and a Lucky Strikes Cigarettes ad on the back cover. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))