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1951-04-21 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

1951/04/21 — Cover design by John Clymer

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

  • “The Irresistible Heel” by Nancy Shores and illustrated by Roy Price
  • “Botts and the Tractor Hoarder” by William Hazlett Upson and illustrated by Hy Rubin
  • “Obsolete Hero” by Steve McNeil and illustrated by Bill Fleming
  • “Man Killer” by William Byron Mowery and illustrated by Fred Ludekens

    • NOVELETTE:

  • “Night of Reckoning” by John and Ward Hawkins and illustrated by Harvey Kidder

    • 9 ARTICLES:

  • I Rode the Ice Tractors by Bill Wolf

  • Crime in the U.S.: What I Found Out About the Ohio Hoodlums — Part 3 of a Series — by U.S. Sen. Estes Kefauver
  • How Well Do You Know the Bible? by Roger Butterfield
  • Ballplayers Are Sissies Now by Ted Shane with photo of Yankees surrounding pitcher Bob Porterfield, lying on the ground after being hit by a pitch–the caption asserts that in the old days “they would have just sloshed water on him, stood him up to finish batting”
  • Are the British Willing to Fight? by Martha Gellman
  • The Grim Truth About Civil Defense — Part 2 of 2 — by Stewart Alsop and Dr. Ralph E. Lapp
  • Life in a Candy Factory by Arthur W. Baum
  • Gaudiest Things That Fly by Helen Muir

  • The Cities of America: Sacramento by Joe Alex Morris

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • “Trial by Terror” — Part 1 of 7 — by Paul Gallico and illustrated by William A. Smith
  • “Who Killed Miss X?” — Part 5 of 8 — by Mary McMullen and illustrated by Joe De Mers

    • OTHER FEATURES:

  • Letters
  • Editorials
  • Report to the Editors
  • Post Scripts
  • Verse
  • Keeping Posted