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1946-08-03 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

1946/08/03 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: Cover design by Norman Rockwell.

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

  • “By the Beard of Saint Crispin” by James Warner Bellah and illustrated by Fred Ludekens
  • “Old Professors Never Die” by Wilbur Schramm and illustrated by J.W. Welch
  • “The Constant Wave” by Jacland Marmur and illustrated by Fred Freeman
  • “Civilized Man” by Robert Carson and illustrated by Fredric Varady

    • 8 ARTICLES:

  • “Crisis at the Colleges” by Milton Mackaye — As the GI’s return to school in droves, often with their wives and babies, the colleges are without enough teachers, housing and other facilities. Many a boy or girl faces heartbreak in September
  • “The Great Penicillin Mystery” by Steven M. Spencer
  • “The Cities of America — Pittsburgh” 18th of a Series by George Sessions Perry
  • “The Private Life of a New Model” by Harold Van Doren
  • “The Germans Just Don’t Believe Us” by Ernest O. Hauser
  • “Will Little Dom Lead the DiMaggios?” by Harold Kaese about Boston Red Sox Dom DiMaggio
  • “A Little Trip in the Car” text by Robert M. Yoder with drawings by Robert Day
  • “Bang! Bang! Bang! Three Redskins Bite the Dust” by Pete Martin is about Charles Bragin, world’s foremost collector of dime novels with a color page showing titles such as Buffalo Bill Stories and Diamond Dick

    • SERIAL:

  • “Dark Passage” Part 3 of 8 by David Goodis and illustrated by Perry Peterson — first appearance of the classic Goodis noir story which would soon be made into a film starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall
  • “Double Treasure” Part 5 of 8 by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Hy Rubin

    • OTHER FEATURES:

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

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: half-page ad featuring Carol Landis for DuPont, beautiful full-page color ad for Caesar and Cleopatra starring Vivien Leigh and Claude Rains, Bell Telephone Systems celebrates the 20th birthday of the modern movie with a large scene still featuring John Barrymore in Don Juan, and a Camel Cigarettes ad on the back cover.