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1946-08-31 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

1946/08/31 — ITEM DESCRIPTION:
Cover design by Constantin Alajalov.

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

  • “Troubled Voyage” by William Holder and illustrated by Peter Helck
  • “Nobody’s Alone” by Elizabeth Enright and illustrated by James R. Bingham
  • “Stowaway” by R.Ross Annett and illustrated by Amos Sewell
  • “The Doctor Will See You Now” by Kenneth Payson Kempton and illustrated by Roy Price

    • 8 ARTICLES:

  • “Tramp Ships of the Air” by Philip Gustafson
  • “St. Calaisphen, North America” by J.C. Furnas
  • “Pink Pepper” by Wesley Price is about Claude Pepper
  • “Our Most Dangerous Boundary” by Harold J. Noble is about Korea
  • “New Ears for the Deaf” by Steven M. Spencer
  • “Road Trip” by Collie Small with color photographs by Larry Keighley about the Brooklyn Dodgers on a road trip including pics of Leo Durocher, Pee Wee Reese and more
  • “Star-Spangled Octopus” Part 4 of 4 by David G. Wittels about MCA in Hollywood
  • “Proxy Mother” by T.E. Murphy

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • “The Strangers” Part 1 of 6 by C.E. Scoggins and illustrated by George Hughes
  • “Dark Passage” Part 7 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

    • OTHER FEATURES:

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

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Frigidaire ad illustrated by Albert Dorne, Jeanne Crain for Simmons Beautyrest, TWA, Vera Maxwell for Scripto Wordmaster, on the inside back cover are Bill Dickey and Mel Ott for Chesterfield Cigarettes, and a Wheaties ad on the back cover.