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1946-11-09 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

1946/11/09 — ITEM DESCRIPTION:
Cover design by Mead Schaeffer.

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

  • “We Shall Live Again” by Sophie Kerr and illustrated by Alex Ross
  • “Behind Locked Doors” by Thomas Walsh and illustrated by Geoffrey Biggs
  • “Hardesty’s Electronic Cupid” by Joseph Marshall and illustrated by Hank Berger
  • “The Soaring Heart” by Charles Ellsworth and illustrated by George L. Connelly
  • “The Bride From Over the Water” by David Lamson and illustrated by Phil Dormont

    • A POST BOOK CONDENSATION:

  • “Grandpa Was Quite a Fellow” by Walter Needham, as recorded by Barrows Mussey

    • 7 ARTICLES:

  • “I’m Through With Teaching” by Lois Macfarland with David G. Wittels
  • “Football’s Black Market” by Francis Wallace is about the Shorty McWilliams affair and other alarming cases of subsidization gone wild
  • “Nobody Beats the Dutch” by Ernest O. Hauser
  • “Hollywood’s No. 1 Wit” Part 2 of 2 by Pete Martin is about Nunnally Johnson with photos by Gene Lester
  • “Turkeys Are Dopes” by Neil M. Clark
  • “They Start the Fads” by Frank J. Taylor with photos by Gene Lester
  • “The Glorious Collapse of the 106th” by Stanley Frank

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • “Bright Was the Sword” Part 1 of 6 by Eric Hatch and illustrated by Austin Briggs
  • “Station West” Part 4 of 7 by Luke Short and illustrated by Harold Von Schmidt

    • OTHER FEATURES:

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

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Alfred Lunt for Parker Pens with a Boris Artzybasheff ad on the inside front cover, Lily Pons for Columbia Records, half-page ad features a photo of Preston Sturges for Scripto Pencils, 2-page ad for the Douglas Aircraft Company featuring the Douglas DC-6 and other planes, Springmaid Fabrics half-page ad featuring The Springmaid as drawn by Arthur William Brown, Remington Electric Shavers, Basil Rathbone in vivid color as Sherlock Holmes for Chesterfield Cigarettes on the inside back cover with caption “Yes, it’s Elementary”, and a Coca-Cola ad illustrated by Lyford on the back cover.