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1956-11-03 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

1956/11/03 — ITEM DESCRIPTION:
Cover design by George Hughes.

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

  • “Summer Idyll” by Maxine Lane and illustrated by Joe DeMers
  • “Flash Fire” by Olaf Ruhen
  • “Botts and the Mad Mountaineer” by William Hazlett Upson and illustrated by Walter Skov
  • “Broadway Calling” by Louis Paul

    • 9 ARTICLES:

  • “Confessions of an S.O.B.” — Part 1 of 4 — by Drew Pearson
  • “Cities of the World: (No. 25) Istanbul” by James P. O’Donnell
  • “Oklahoma’s Little Round Coach” by Al Dewlen is about Gomer Jones
  • “Ike, Mamie and the Neighbors” by Rowland T. Moriarty and Frederick A. McCord
  • “Inside the Asylum, Part V: What Am I Here Doctor?” by John Bartlow Martin
  • “The Face of America: Autumn Magic” Photograph by Arthur Griffin
  • “My Life in Two Worlds” by Haru Matsukata
  • “He Collects Noises” by Robert M. Yoder is about Charles Michelson who apparently supplies media outlets with soundbites
  • “We Must Shoot More Deer” by Robert Crichton

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • “The Secret of Shining Brook” — Part 2 of 8 — by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Ken Riley
  • “The Guns of Navarone” — Part 7 of 8 — by Alistair McLean

    • OTHER FEATURES:

  • Keeping Posted
  • Post Scripts
  • Letters
  • Editorials
  • Verse

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: 12-page section from Chrysler towards the front of the issue “Now! The Newest New Cars in 20 Years!” includes 2-page spreads for the Plymouth, ’57 Dodge, 1957 DeSoto, and “Announcing for 1957 — The Mighty Chrysler”.