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1946-10-05 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

1946/10/05 — ITEM DESCRIPTION:
Cover design by Norman Rockwell.

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

  • “The Picket With the Big Blue Eyes” by Richard Thruelsen and illustrated by George Englert
  • “The Last Word” by George Morse and illustrated Roy Price
  • “Sammy’s Last Summer” by William J. Walters and illustrated by L.R. Gustavson
  • “Witch Woman” by Harold Lamb and illustrated by Robert Riggs

    • A POST CONDENSATION:

  • “Papa Never Struck It Rich” by Constance Roe

    • 8 ARTICLES:

  • “The Case of Erle Stanley Gardner” Part 1 of 3 by Alva Johnston with color photographs by Ivan Dmitri
  • “The Cities of America — Washington” 21st of a Series by George Sessions Perry
  • “The Second Exodus of the Jews” by Samuel Lubell
  • Pitching is the Series Pay-Off” by Stanley Frank with photo of Boston Red Sox Dave Ferriss
  • “Now They Can Speak” by Steven M. Spencer
  • “I Guarded FDR” Part 5 of 5 by Michael F. Reilly as told to William J. Slocum
  • “Masters of the Mop” by Rufus Jarman
  • “New Zealand’s Uneasy Utopia” by Sydney Greenbie

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • “The Battered Bride” Part 3 of 7 by Robert Carson and illustrated by Coby Whitmore
  • “The Strangers” Part 6 of 6 by C.E. Scoggins and illustrated by George Hughes

    • OTHER FEATURES:

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

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Half-page ad featuring Carole Landis for Dupont, Robert Young and Barbara Hale in Lady Luck, Insurance Company of North America with white cat illustration by Albert Staehle, Conoco Motor Oil with full-page illustration of family of goats by Albert Staehle, half-page ad featuring Red Sox Dave Ferriss drawn by Rank Williams for Gillette.