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1946-08-10 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

1946/08/10 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: Cover design by Stevan Dohanos.

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

  • “The Lady in the Doorway” by Neill C. Wilson and illustrated by Roy Price
  • “Spring Makes Women Crazy” by Ruth Rankin Lamson and illustrated by Coby Whitmore
  • “A Slant on the Skipper” by Richard Howells Watkins and illustrated by Fred Freeman
  • “Davy and the Dark-Eyed Thief” by John Reid Byers and illustrated by Harold Von Schmidt

    • 10 ARTICLES:

  • “Star-Spangled Octopus” Part 1 of 4 by David G. Wittels is about Jules Stein
  • “They Don’t Have to Die” by Elsie McCormick is about coal miners
  • “The Germans Resist Liberation” by Ernest O. Hauser
  • “Meet Busy Little Hirohito Today” by Harold J. Noble
  • “Oratory’s Noblest Temple” by Rufus Jarman
  • “Strip Teaser in Black and White” by Collie Small
  • “He Wouldn’t Give Up the Fort” by John Maloney
  • “Mock Mayors of New York” – A Post Picture Story
  • “Don’t Let the Veteran Down” by Brig. Gen. Leon W. Johnson
  • “The Case of the Missing Sources” by Dick Ashbaugh

    • SERIAL:

  • “Dark Passage” Part 4 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 — this issue contains a nice illustration of the main character with his face wrapped in bandages
  • “Double Treasure” Part 6 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: Goodyear with color illustration by Albert Dorne, Mennen illustrated by Mingo, and a Kodak ad on the back cover.