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1954-09-25 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

1954/09/25 — Cover design by Norman Rockwell

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

  • “Quick on the Draw” by Morgan Lewis and illustrated by Bruce Bomberger
  • “The Quarterback Who Couldn’t Take It” by Emmett Watson and illustrated by Harvey Kidder
  • “Bad Woman” by Williams Forrest and illustrated by Al Buell
  • “Runaway Bomber” by Frank Harvey and illustrated by Fred Ludekens — The crew was dead. The B-52 was on automatic pilot, and headed for the U.S.–with a live H-Bomb Aboard

    • NOVELETTE:

  • “The Gallant Code” by James R. Aswell and illustrated by Austin Briggs

    • 9 ARTICLES:

  • The Man Nobody Wanted by Dolly Staniszewski as told to Beth Day
  • My Old Man Groucho — Part 2 of 8 — by Arthur Marx about Groucho Marx

  • Don’t Keep Off the Grass by Frank Cameron
  • How We Nabbed Russia’s Number One Spy by Robert Eunson
  • The New Wonder Boy of Notre Dame by Fred Russell is about Terence Brennan
  • Now, Smile! by Corey Ford
  • Most Unpopular Men on the Road by Hal Burton
  • Public Friend No. 1 by Harold H. Martin is about Robert Moses
  • This School Is Ready for the H-Bomb by Herbert and Dixie Yahraes

    • SERIAL:

  • “The Case of the Restless Redhead” — Part 3 of 8 — by Erle Stanley Gardner and illustrated by James R. Bingham

    • OTHER FEATURES:

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

    • 1954-08-14 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents, August 14, 1954

    1954/08/14 — Cover design by John Falter.

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

    4 SHORT STORIES:

    • “Sign of the Kalu” by Louis Kaye and illustrated by Mead Schaeffer
    • “Impetuous Heart” by Paul Jones and illustrated by Robert Stanley
    • “Playboy Lover” by Nancy Pope Mayorga and illustrated by Ray Prohaska
    • “The Wreck of the School Bus” by Saliee O’Brien and illustrated by James R. Bingham

    7 ARTICLES:

    • The Fire Detectives of Region Five by Frank Cameron
    • They Escaped from Civilization by Darrell Berrigan
    • I’ve Had Cancer 32 Years by Marian Miller Kean with Steven M. Spencer
    • The Truth About Florida’s Red Tide by Henry LaCossitt
    • The Senators’ Prize Castoff by William Barry Furlong about pitcher Bob Porterfield
    • The War Malaya Cannot Afford to Lose by Cameron Hawley
    • They Will Never Be Forgotten by Edward Shenton

    2 SERIALS:

    • “The Mask of Alexander” — Part 1 of 6 by Martha Albrand and illustrated by Robert Meyers
    • “Invitation to Murder — Part 5 of 8 by Leslie Ford and illustrated by Edwin Georgi

    OTHER FEATURES:

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

    1954-04-10 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents, April 10, 1954

    1954/04/10 — Cover design by Thornton Utz.

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

    4 SHORT STORIES:

    • “The Indiscreet Mrs. Jarvis” by Anne Homer Warner and illustrated by Al Buell
    • “No Love Left” by Kinglsey Tufts and illustrated by George Garland
    • “Girls Are So Savage!” by John Reese and illustrated by Robert Stanley
    • “Deadly Contraband” by Robert Standish and illustrated by William A. Smith

    8 ARTICLES:

    • This is My Last Year – Part 1 of 3 by Ted Williams as told to Joe Reichler and Joe Trimble
    • The Brash Banker of Arizona by Neil M. Clark about Walter Bimson
    • They’re Taming the Lolo Trail by Richard L. NeubergerTales of the Floating Bottles by Alan Hynd
    • Is Russia Winning the Battle for Europe? by General of the Army Omar N. Bradley
    • This Is On Me – Part 9 of 9 by Bob Hope as told to Pete Martin
    • They’ve Been Dining on the Railroad by Richard Barnitz with Rufus Jarman
    • Toughest College in the Land by Bill Wolf is about Notre Dame of Saskatchewan

    2 SERIALS:

    • “The Golden Trap” — Part 2 of 5 by Robert Ormond Case and illustrated by Stan Galli
    • “The Case of the Murdered G-Man” — Part 7 of 8 by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Hy Rubin

    OTHER FEATURES:

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

    1953-12-05 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents, December 5, 1953

    1953/12/05 — Cover design by Stevan Dohanos.

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

    4 SHORT STORIES:

    • “The Beautiful Hitchhiker” by Phyllis Duganne and illustrated by Joe De Mers
    • “First Holdup” by Harry T. Madden and illustrated by Sam Bates
    • “Botts and the Impossible Mountain” by William Hazlett Upson and illustrated by Hy Rubin
    • “The Babe in Toyland” by Fred Dickenson and illustrated by Bob Hilbert

    NOVELETTE:

    • “The Coward” by Jacland Marmur and illustrated by Anton Otto Fischer

    8 ARTICLES:

    • We Met Death on K2 — part 1 of 2 by Robert H. Bates with Robert W. Craig
    • I Flew With the Stratojets by Wesley Price
    • It’s Never Too Late to Go to College by Milton MacKaye
    • The Dog That Trained Me by Sally Carrighar
    • Professor in a Hot Spot by James P. O’Donnell
    • The Post Reports on the AEC: The Life History of an A-Bomb — Part 2 of 2 by Harold H. Martin
    • His Time Is Worth $10,000 A Day by Henry La Cossitt is about Johnny Fox of Boston
    • Things You Never Knew About Pencils by Don Wharton

    2 SERIALS:

    • “The Double Agent” — Conclusion by William J. Stevens, Jr. and illustrated by Earl Mayan
    • “Cry Murder!” — part 4 of 7 by Nancy Rutledge and illustrated by Edwin Georgi

    OTHER FEATURES:

    • Keeping Posted
    • Post Scripts
    • Letters
    • Editorials
    • Remember When?
    • Verse

    1953-02-14 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents, February 14, 1953

    1953/02/14 — Cover design by George Hughes.

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

    4 SHORT STORIES:

    • “How Can I Get Rid of Him?” by Richard Stern and illustrated by Robert Stanley
    • “Twenty-Four-Hour Affair” by Lawrence Lee and illustrated by Edwin Georgi
    • “Meanest Man in the Navy” by Dan Gallery and illustrated by Bill Fleming
    • “The Gunfighters” by Jack Schaefer and illustrated by Ray Prohaska

    7 ARTICLES:

    • Call Me Lucky — Part 1 of 8 by Bing Crosby as told to Pete Martin
    • We Found Lincoln’s Lost Bank Account by Roland T. Carr and Hugh Morrow
    • Congress Puts the Show on the Road by James R. Aswell
    • This Is How They Do It in Maine by William S. Dutton
    • They Disgrace Us Overseas by Ernest Leiser
    • Adventures of an Amazon Trader by Harold H. Martin
    • Baseball’s Amazing Sislers by Arthur Mann featuring bonus baby Dave Sisler

    2 SERIALS:

    • “The Frightened Wife” — Part 1 of 4 by Mary Roberts Rinehart and illustrated by Earl Mayan
    • “The Dangerous Angel” — Part 3 of 8 by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Amos Sewell

    OTHER FEATURES:

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

    1952-10-25 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1952/10/25 — Cover design by George Hughes

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

  • “The Perfect Model” by Corey Ford and illustrated by Mortimer Wilson
  • “The No-Talent Kid” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. and illustrated by Amos Sewell
  • “The Battle on the Cliffs” by Neill C. Wilson and illustrated by Bruce Bomberger
  • “The Mutinous Mate” by John T. Rowland and illustrated by Austin Briggs

    • 9 ARTICLES:

  • Ridgway’s Toughest Job by Ernest O. Hauser
  • He Made the Coast See Red by Dick Hyland and Keith Monroe about Jess Hill and USC
  • The Inside Story of Our First Hydrogen Bomb by Stewart Alsop and Dr. Ralph Lapp

  • Can Ike Crack the Solid South
  • Chicago’s Sunday Jungle by Ralph Knight features Marlin Perkins
  • They’re Learning that Patients Are People by Hannah Lees

  • School for Smart Young Things by Richard L. Neuberger
  • I Hate to See Those Cotton Pickers Go by George Sessions Perry
  • In My Case It Was Cancer by Elizabeth R. Bills

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • “Commanche Attack” — Part 1 of 6 — by Dick Pearce and illustrated by Harold Von Schmidt
  • “Washington Whispers Murder” — Part 5 of 8 — by Leslie Ford and illustrated by Edwin Georgi

    • OTHER FEATURES:

  • Letters
  • Editorials
  • Remember When?
  • Post Scripts
  • Verse
  • Keeping Posted

    • 1952-09-27 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents, September 27, 1952

    1952/09/27 — Cover design by George Hughes.

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

    4 SHORT STORIES:

    • “The Burning of the Nan Shan” by Jacland Marmur and illustrated by Anton Otto Fischer
    • “Rich Girl’s-Whim” by Frederick Borg and illustrated by Robert Stanley
    • “Battle Royal” by Frank O’Rourke and illustrated by Paul Nonnast
    • “Rendezvous With Death” by Burnham Carter and illustrated by Paul Rabut

    8 ARTICLES:

    • The Truth About General Grow’s Moscow Diary by Demaree Bess
    • How to Create a Movie Star by Richard G. Hubler about the making of Rock Hudson
    • The Best I Ever Ate by Sophie Kerr
    • Can He Revive Pro Football’s Sad Sacks? by Frank X. Tolbert about Dallas Texans owner Giles Miller
    • Here’s What’s Behind Ike’s Grin by Beverly Smith
    • I Keep House in the Congo by Rosamond Halsey Carr
    • The Amazing Blossoms of Grandma Briggs by Frank J. Taylor
    • They Got the Goods on Washington’s Cops by Paul F. Healy

    2 SERIALS:

    • “Washington Whispers Murder” — Part 1 of 8 by Leslie Ford and illustrated by Edwin Georgi
    • “Father Came Home!” — Part 5 of 7 by Robert Carson and illustrated by Thornton Utz

    OTHER FEATURES:

    • Keeping Posted
    • Post Scripts
    • Letters
    • Editorials
    • Remember When?
    • Verse

    1952-09-20 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents, September 20, 1952

    1952/09/20 — Cover design by Dick Sargent.

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

    4 SHORT STORIES:

    • “Someone to Look After Her” by Ruth Lamson and illustrated by Edwin Georgi
    • “Pretection Money” by Jerome Ellison and illustrated by Rudy Pott
    • “The Tiger Is Loose!” by John Reese and illustrated by Stan Galli
    • “No Mercy” by Bennett Foster and illustrated by Fred Ludekens

    NOVELETTE:

    • “The Vengeance of Yat Chuen” by William Chamberlain and illustrated by Mead Schaeffer

    9 ARTICLES:

    • Bears Are No Darn Good! by Harold H. Martin about bears in the Big Smokies of North Carolina
    • They Do as They Please–and Get Paid by Charles Rawlings
    • We Conquered Fear for Our Child’s Sake by William M. Shull
    • Those Campaign-Train Monkeyshines by Sidney Shalett
    • Can Any Man Living Beat Him? by Al Hirschberg about Rocky Marciano
    • Nothing’s Too Good for a Congressman! by Ernest Leiser
    • Stalin’s Secret War Plans by Gen. Alexei Markoff
    • Down to the Sea by Subway by Stanley Washburn Jr.
    • What Has Wide-Open Gambling Done to Nevada? by Robert Laxalt

    2 SERIALS:

    • “The Lady Broke the Rules” — Conclusion by Margaret Culkin Banning and illustrated by Joe De Mers
    • “Father Came Home!” — Part 4 of 7 by Robert Carson and illustrated by Thornton Utz

    OTHER FEATURES:

    • Keeping Posted
    • Post Scripts
    • Letters
    • Editorials
    • Remember When?
    • Verse

    1952-03-29 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1952/03/29 — Cover design by Norman Rockwell

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

  • “Too Old for the Girl” by Jacob Hay and illustrated by Joe De Mers
  • “The Spring Mother Went Away” by David Lamson and illustrated by Larry Kritcher
  • “The Man-Taming Woman” by Michael Fessier and illustrated by Bill Fleming
  • “The Big Fix” by Harry Olive and illustrated by Mead Schaeffer

    • NOVELETTE:

  • “No Home of His Own” by Jacland Marmur and illustrated by James R. Bingham

    • 9 ARTICLES:

  • There’ll Always Be a British Nabob by Geoffrey Bocca
  • Want to Be a Movie Star? by Maurice Zolotow
  • My Personal War with the Russians by David Krichevski with Pete Martin
  • The Pathfinder of the Moonshine Mountains by Booton Herndon
  • Arizona’s New Indian Uprising by Joseph Stocker
  • When the Doctors Gave Up: God Saved My Baby by Samuel H. Binder
  • I Was the Witness: Hiss is Cornered and Fights Back (Eighth of a Series of Articles) by Whittaker Chambers
  • I Saw the Dope Runners’ Stronghold by Karl E. Reichel as told to Robert W. Johnson
  • The Easy Way to Get Rich by Frank J. Taylor

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • “Nothing to Lose” — Part 2 of 8 — by Hammond Innes and illustrated by Geoffrey Biggs
  • “Doctor Windom’s Ordeal” — Part 7 of 8 — by James Ramsey Ullman and illustrated by William A. Smith

    • OTHER FEATURES:

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

    • 1951-09-29 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1951/09/29 — Cover design by John Falter

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

  • “Killer’s Canyon” by Bennett Foster and illustrated by Fred Ludekens
  • “Double Cross” by Vera Hyez and illustrated by Harvey Kidder
  • “The Top-Secret Leak” by Jacob Hay and illustrated by Bruce Bomberger
  • “What Happened to My Little Girl?” by A.E. Hotchner and illustrated by Larry Kritcher

    • 7 ARTICLES:

  • Can the New A-Bomb Stop Troops in the Field? by Stewart Alsop and Dr. Ralph Lapp
  • The Gay Irishman of Wilton, Conn. by Richard Thruelsen
  • The Man With the Million-Dollar Nose by Robert M. Yoder
  • Look What We Handed Russia! by William L. Worden
  • My Fifteen Years With the MacArthurs — Part 4 of 8: Escape to Australia by Col. Sid Huff, USA, with Joe Alex Morris
  • Hedy Sells Her Past by Pete Martin featuring Hedy Lamarr selling her belongings at auction
  • The People No One Can Cure by Steven M. Spencer about muscular dystrophy

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • “The Patient at Peacocks Hall” — Part 1 of 4 — by Margery Allingham and illustrated by Larry Kritcher
  • “Hornblower of the Indies – Part 3 of 8 — by C.S. Forester and illustrated by Ken Riley

    • OTHER FEATURES:

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

    • 1951-08-11 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents, August 11, 1951

    1951/08/11 — Cover design by Stevan Dohanos.

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

    4 SHORT STORIES:

    • “Love Song in a Honky-Tonk by John and Ward Hawkins and illustrated by Joe De Mers
    • “Combat Jump” by Laurence Critchell and illustrated by Stan Galli
    • “The Midnight Ride of Morton Baxter” by Bogart Rogers and illustrated by Amos Sewell
    • “Mail-Order Bride” by Van Cort and illustrated by Ray Prohaska

    7 ARTICLES:

    • The Case of Millville, N.J. by Stanley Frank
    • The World’s Worst Golf Course by George Weller
    • That Clouting Kid from Cleveland by Harry T. Paxton is about Al Rosen
    • They May Have to Fight the Whole Red Army by James P. O’Donnell
    • You Can Live to Be a Hundred, He Says by Noel F. Busch is about Gayelord Hauser
    • He Likes to Fly Straight Up by W.J. Holt, Jr.
    • Those High Jinks in Hollywood Pools! by Frank J. Taylor

    2 SERIALS:

    • “The Smuggled Atom Bomb” – Part 2 of 5 by Philip Wylie and illustrated by James R. Bingham
    • “The Bahamas Murder Case” – Conclusion by Leslie Ford and illustrated by Edwin Georgi

    OTHER FEATURES:

    • Keeping Posted
    • Post Scripts
    • Letters
    • Editorials
    • Verse by Loyd Rosenfield, Eleanor Halbrook Zimmerman, Jane H. Merchant, Anobel Armour, Herbert Merrill

    1951-07-28 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1951/07/28 — ITEM DESCRIPTION:
    Cover design by Constantin Alajalov.

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

  • “Too Many Men in Her Life” by Zachary Gold and illustrated by Coby Whitmore
  • “Maqua, the Pintail” by Edmund Gilligan and illustrated by Harold Von Schmidt
  • “The Boy Nobody Played With” by Michael Drury and illustrated by Douglass Crockwell
  • “Have a Heart, Lady!” by Ruth Lamson and illustrated by Gilbert Bundy

    • 7 ARTICLES:

  • Flash–Tornado Warning! by Pat McDermott
  • Let’s Face it–We’re in a Jam by U.S. Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
  • Mr. Singer’s Money Machine — Part 4 of 4 — by John Kobler
  • Will France Be Stabbed in the Back Again? by Ernest O. Hauser
  • These Fund Drives Are Getting Me Down by Margaret Culkin Banning
  • What an Auction He Could Hold! by Arthur W. Baum is about Alden Scott Boyer and his Museum for the Preservation of American Curiosities
  • Father Bought a Ball Team by Peter Ordway

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • “The Bahamas Murder Case — Part 5 of 7 — by Leslie Ford and illustrated by Edwin Georgi
  • “Lady on the Lam” — Conclusion — by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Hy Rubin

    • OTHER FEATURES:

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

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: 2-page ad for United Aircraft Corporation with full-page color illustration by James R. Bingham, half-page ad featuring Phil Rizzuto for Prest-O-Lite Batteries, Rise Stevens for Camel Cigarettes, full-page color ad with David Niven, Vera-Ellen and Cesar Romero in Happy Go Lovely.

    1951-06-30 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1951/06/30 — Cover design by Thornton Utz

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

  • “Bachelor on the Run” by Sophie Kerr and illustrated by Coby Whitmore
  • “Sea Gypsy” by Arthur Mayse and illustrated by Amos Sewell
  • “Discarded Colonel” by Francis Chase, Jr. and illustrated by Larry Kritcher
  • “The Boy Who Wanted to Quit” by Margaret Craven and illustrated by Ben Prins

    • 7 ARTICLES:

  • We Threw the Commies Out by Raymond M. Hilliard
  • The Blonde Bombshell of TV by Pete Martin is about Faye Emerson
  • Tales of a Parole-Board Chief by Lee Edson
  • China’s Not All Red Yet by Yukon Chang
  • The Ballplayer Nobody Wanted by Harry T. Paxton is about Andy Seminick
  • Sharpest Boys in the Air Force by Stanley Frank
  • Women at Work: Dressmaker by Richard Thruelsen

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • “The Bahamas Murder Case” — Part 1 of 7 — by Leslie Ford and illustrated by Edwin Georgi
  • “Lady on the Lam” — Part 4 of 8 — by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Hy Rubin

    • OTHER FEATURES:

  • Letters
  • Editorials
  • Post Scripts
  • Verse
  • Keeping Posted
  • Chesterfields ad on back cover features Dan Dailey in color

    • 1951-06-09 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents, June 9, 1951

    1951/06/09 — Cover design by John Clymer.

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

    4 SHORT STORIES:

    • “The Careless Maid” by B.J. Chute and illustrated by Larry Kritcher
    • “Bandit’s Hide-Out” by Hal G. Evarts and illustrated by Ken Riley
    • “Summertime Scoundrel” by Phyllis Duganne and illustrated by R.G. Harris
    • “Dames Are Poison” by Steve McNeil and illustrated by Gilbert Bundy

    NOVELETTE:

    • “The Spellbinder” by Gerald Kersh and illustrated by Ben Stahl

    8 ARTICLES:

    • Are We Stifling the Inventors? by Cap. George N. Robillard, USN, with Beverly Smith
    • Commuters’ Island by Hal Burton is about Staten Island
    • How Government Pressure Boys Squander Your Money by Charles Stevenson
    • We Are the Widows of West Point ’49 by Eleanor S. Hardaway
    • Last of the Girl-Show Czards by Maurice Zolotow is about Mike Todd and features 5 color photos over 2 pages
    • Don’t Call Him a Bush Leaguer by Dugal O’Liam is about Brick Laws
    • No Game for Sissies by Joseph Wechsberg
    • The Secret of the Vanished Explorer by Morton M. Hunt

    2 SERIALS:

    • “Lady on the Lam” – Part 1 of 8 by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Hy Rubin
    • “Buccaneer of the Barrens” – Part 4 of 6 by Robert Ormond Case

    OTHER FEATURES:

    • Keeping Posted
    • Post Scripts
    • Letters
    • Editorials
    • Report to the Editors
    • Verse by Kate Brackett, Georgia Starbuck Galbraith, Thompson Young, Robert D. Abrahams, Charles Bruce, Dorothy Marie Davis, Virginia Moran Evans, Evelyn Taylor

    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

    • 1951-04-14 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1951/04/14 — Cover design by John Falter

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

  • “Leave My Love Alone” by John and Ward Hawkins and illustrated by Thornton Utz
  • “Who Gives This Woman” by Victoria Case and illustrated by George Garland
  • “Hostage” by William Ashley Anderson and illustrated by Robert W. Douglass
  • “The Middle-Aged Freshman” by Samson Raphaelson and illustrated by Austin Briggs

    • NOVELETTE:

  • “Tugboat Annie and the Red Threat” by Norman Reilly Raine and illustrated by Harold Von Schmidt

    • 8 ARTICLES:

  • The Grim Truth About Civil Defense — Part 1 of 2 — by Stewart Alsop and Dr. Ralph E. Lapp
  • Crime in the U.S.: What I Found Out About the Miami Mob — Part 2 of a Series — by U.S. Senator Estes Kefauver
  • The President’s Musical Marines by Henry F. Pringle

  • Baseball’s Mr. Wisecrack by Collie Small is about Fresco Thompson and includes photo of Thompson with Carl Furillo and Charley Dressen
  • The Cripples Walk Out by Joe Alex Morris
  • So You Think Women Can’t Drive? by Margo Fischer

  • How to Houseclean a State by Beverly Smith
  • The World’s Happiest Orphans – A Post Picture Story

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • “Mounted Patrol” — Conclusion — by Garnett Weston and illustrated by John Clymer
  • “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

    • 1951-03-17 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1951/03/17 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: Cover design by George Hughes.

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

  • “Beautiful Invader” by Phyllis Duganne and illustrated by Coby Whitmore
  • “Russian Agent” by Pat Frank and illustrated by Stan Galli
  • “Dawn Pursuit” by Wyatt Blassingame and illustrated by Bruce Bomberger
  • “Tomboy” by Steve McNeil and illustrated by George Hughes

    • NOVELETTE:

  • “Relieved of Command” by Jacland Marmur and illustrated by Anton Otto Fischer

    • 9 ARTICLES:

  • “The Odds Againts Eisenhower” by James P. O’Donnell
  • “They’ve Grown Some New Posies for the Ladies” by Frank J. Taylor
  • “We’ve Found a New Weapon Against Heart Disease” by Steven M. Spencer
  • “Wildest Drivers in the World” by Darrell Berrigan
  • “Oh, How You’ll Hate Him!” by Victor Ullman is about price stabilizer Mike DiSalle
  • “He Loves to Tease Wild Bulls” by George Sessions Perry
  • “That Modest Young Guy in the Outfield” by Al Hirshberg is about Billy Goodman of the Boston Red Sox
  • “The Japs Comes Back from Defeat” by William L. Worden
  • “What Makes An MP Tough?” by Harold H. Martin

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • “Run From the Hangman” part 2 of 4 by Geoffrey Household and illustrated by Robert Fawcett
  • “The Mystery of Flight 252” conclusion by Hammond Innes and illustrated by Geoffrey Biggs

    • OTHER FEATURES:

  • Letters
  • Editorials
  • Report to the Editors
  • Post Scripts
  • Verse
  • Keeping Posted
  • Kodak ad on back cover

    • 1950-12-23 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1950/12/23 — Cover design by Constantin Alajalov

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

  • “Child of Divorce” by Roderick Lull and illustrated by George Hughes
  • “Company for Christmas Dinner” by Philip Wylie and illustrated by Rudy Pott
  • “Granny Hite and the Angry Mob” by Neill C. Wilson and illustrated by Austin Briggs
  • “Small-Town Doctor” by Steve McNeil and illustrated by George Englert

    • 8 ARTICLES:

  • I’ll Take Sled Dogs for Rough Going by Grant Pearson, as told to Philip Newill
  • Spare Parts for Human Bodies by Milton MacKaye
  • The Ladies Like ‘Em Rugged by Pete Martin is about John Wayne
  • The Kids Don’t Remember a Thing by Martha Gellhorn
  • All-Time Champ of the Lobbyists by Beverly Smith is about Sam Ward
  • It’s Tough to Go to School in New Mexico by Neil M. Clark
  • Our Softhearted Warriors in Korea by Nora Waln
  • India Opens Her Hidden Storehouse by Joseph N. Kearney

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • “The Desparate Woman” — Part 5 of 6 — by Martha Allbrand and illustrated by Amos Sewell
  • “The Great Mail Robbery” — Conclusion — by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Hy Rubin

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  • Full-page color ad for Plymouth illustrated by Norman Rockwell featuring a Christmas scene

    • 1950-09-23 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1950/09/23 — Cover design by George Hughes

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

  • “The World The Children Made” by Ray Bradbury and illustrated by Al Parker
  • “The Boy Who Hated Football” by Jim Hendryx, Jr. and illustrated by Stan Galli
  • “Island Happy” by Basil Heatter and illustrated by Bill Fleming
  • “She Wanted a Cowboy” by Phyllis Duganne and illustrated by Edwin Georgi

    • NOVELETTE:

  • “A Disgrace to the Family” by Kay Boyle and illustrated by James R. Bingham

    • 9 ARTICLES:

  • Man Hunt — Part 1 of 2 — by Robert M. Yoder about The Bruce Case
  • Truman’s Most Surprising Advisor by Beverly Smith is about Charles Sawyer
  • The Cities of America: San Juan, Puerto Rico by Henry F. and Katharine Pringle
  • Do The Tigers Have a Winning Secret? by Red Rolfe as told to Stanley Frank
  • The Wounded by Nora Waln with pictures by Larry Keighley
  • We Barrymores! – Part 6 of 6 — by Lionel Barrymore as told to Cameron Shipp
  • New Yorkers Are Really Hayseeds by Red Smith
  • The Mystery of the American Slaves by Christopher Rand about five American airmen enslaved in a remote Asian province
  • Carolina Massacre by Herbert Ravenel Sass with drawing by Paul Nonnast

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • “The Outlaw of Longbow” — Part 3 of 8 — by Peter Dawson and illustrated by Fred Ludekens
  • “The Glencannon-Tugboat Annie Affair” — Part 5 of 6 — by Guy Gilpatric and Norman Reilly Raine and illustrated by Harold Von Schmidt

    • OTHER FEATURES:

  • Letters
  • Editorials
  • Report to the Editors
  • Post Scripts
  • Verse
  • Keeping Posted
  • Massachussets Mutual Life Insurance Company ad with 8-1/4″ X 10-3/8″ color illustration by Norman Rockwell
  • Camel Cigarettes ad on back cover features Ezio Pinza

    • 1950-09-16 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1950/09/16 — Cover design by Mead Schaeffer

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

  • “Charity Ward” by Don Tracy and illustrated by Douglass Crockwell
  • “The Lady in the Jungle” by Hugh B. Cave and illustrated by Bill Fleming
  • “The First Man to Ask Her” by Lenora Mattingly Weber and illustrated by Al Buell
  • “Derelict Doctor” by Van Cort and illustrated by Ray Prohaska
  • “Korean Patrol” by Abe Hudson and illustrated by Fred Freeman

    • 9 ARTICLES:

  • Are Trucks Destroying Our Highways? by David G. Wittels
  • The Strange Case of Howard Unruh by Robert M. Yoder – Unruh at that time was the deadliest mass murderer in criminal history having killed thirteen people in ten minutes in Camden, NJ
  • Anything Goes in Greenwich Village by Stanley Frank
  • What Will We Be Short of This Time? by Peter F. Drucker
  • They Guard Our Arctic Frontier Against the Reds by Harold H. Martin
  • We Barrymores! – Part 5 of 6 — by Lionel Barrymore as told to Cameron Shipp
  • Men at Work: Aerial Photographer by Richard Thruelsen
  • How to Get a New Face by Ben Pearse
  • Will Creeping Communism Engulf India? by Darrell Berrigan

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • “The Outlaw of Longbow” — Part 2 of 8 — by Peter Dawson and illustrated by Fred Ludekens
  • “The Glencannon-Tugboat Annie Affair” — Part 4 of 6 — by Guy Gilpatric and Norman Reilly Raine and illustrated by Harold Von Schmidt

    • OTHER FEATURES:

  • Letters
  • Editorials
  • Report to the Editors
  • Post Scripts
  • Verse
  • Keeping Posted
  • Wheaties ad on back cover includes an image of New York Yankees Allie Reynolds along with some other folks who enjoy Wheaties

    • 1950-07-22 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1950/07/22 — Cover design by Stevan Dohanos

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

  • “Love Scene” by Louis Kamp and illustrated by Coby Whitmore
  • “The Secret of Bogie Bill” by Peggy Stimson Curry and illustrated by Ray Prohaska
  • “Female Conspiracy” by Sidney Herschel Small and illustrated by Robert W. Douglass
  • “The Congressman’s Temptation” by Dana Burnet and illustrated by Larry Kritcher

    • 7 ARTICLES:

  • Shall We Let Them Ruin Our National Parks? by Bernard DeVoto
  • The Cities of America: Taos, New Mexico by Joe Alex Morris
  • Just What the Doctor Ordered by Jerome Ellison
  • We’re Betting Our Shirts on the Atomic Submarine by Vice-Admiral Charles A. Lockwood and Percy Finch
  • Red Loves to Take Chances by Bob Broeg about Red Schoendienst
  • Grandma Gloria Swanson Comes Back — Part 1 of 2 — by Stanley Frank
  • I Posed as a Communist for the FBI — Part 2 of 3 — by Matt Cvetic as told to Pete Martin

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • “Murder Is the Pay-Off” — Part 3 of 7 — by Leslie Ford and illustrated by Edwin Georgi
  • “I’ll Get Even” — Conclusion — by William Fay and illustrated by Geoffrey Biggs

    • OTHER FEATURES:

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  • John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company ad with caption “He Showed Us How to Play the Game” featuring a larger than half-page color illustration of Babe Ruth signing an autograph surrounded by children. With text on the other half of the page describing how the Babe is like their company

    • 1950-06-17 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents, June 17, 1950

    1950/06/17 — Cover design by George Hughes.

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

    5 SHORT STORIES:

    • “There Goes My Man” by Norma Mansfield and illustrated by George Hughes
    • “Never Trust a Redhead” by James Charles Lynch and illustrated by R.G. Harris
    • “The Devil Was Aboard” by Arthur Mayse and illustrated by Amos Sewell
    • “The Terrible Answer” by Paul Gallico and illustrated by Melbourne Brindle
    • “The Flirting Season” by Cameron Shipp and illustrated by Gilbert Bundy

    8 ARTICLES:

    • It All Happened to Me, Part 1 of 4 by Betty MacDonald, author of The Egg and I
    • I Flew With an Arctic Bush Pilot by Sally Carrighar
    • World Capital on Turtle Bay by Edgar Snow about United Nations Headquarters
    • Will They Bring Back the Spitter? by John Lardner
    • The Night Raiders of Berlin by Marguerite Higgins
    • I Enjoy My Bad Habits by William Hazlett Upson
    • Wild-West Bank by Frank J. Taylor
    • They Trade in Treasure from the Indies by Ashley Halsey, Jr.

    2 SERIALS:

    • “Murder in the Family,” Part 5 of 7 by Mary Hastings Bradley and illustrated by Perry Peterson
    • “Legacy of Fear,” Part 7 of 8 by Garnett Weston and illustrated by James R. Bingham

    OTHER FEATURES:

    • Keeping Posted
    • Post Scripts
    • Letters
    • Editorials
    • Report to the Editors
    • Verse by John Bailey, Harry Lazarus, Caroline Cain Durkee, Dorothy Brown Thompson, R.H. Grenville, Herbert Merrill, Loyd Rosenfield, Jane H. Merchant

    1950-06-03 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents, June 3, 1950

    1950/06/03 — Cover design by Coby Whitmore.

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

    5 SHORT STORIES:

    • “The Man Who Married Money” by John Reese and illustrated by George Hughes
    • “Ouch for Me!” by Cyril Hume and illustrated by Ken Riley
    • “Botts Bogs Down” by William Hazlett Upson and illustrated by Hy Rubin
    • “Sailor’s Blood” by Jacland Marmur and illustrated by Fred Freeman
    • “The Highwayman” by Michael Foster and illustrated by Donald Teague

    8 ARTICLES:

    • Now We Have Plenty of Oil by Arthur W. Baum
    • I’m a Village Cop and I Like It by Francis J. Flaherty as told to Malcolm W. Rollins
    • Want to See Europe? Here’s How by Ernest O. Hauser
    • That Guy Durocher! by Stanley Woodward
    • Can Senator Taft Win His Biggest Fight? by Beverly Smith
    • They Gambled Their Lives by Robert M. Yoder
    • Nature’s Million-Dollar Mistake by Richard Thruelsen about new varieties of grapefruit
    • Germany’s Wide-Open City by Ernest Leiser about Hamburg

    2 SERIALS:

    • “Murder in the Family,” Part 3 of 7 by Mary Hastings Bradley and illustrated by Perry Peterson
    • “Legacy of Fear,” Part 5 of 8 by Garnett Weston and illustrated by James R. Bingham

    OTHER FEATURES:

    • Keeping Posted
    • Post Scripts
    • Letters
    • Editorials
    • Verse by Eva Baron, Ellen Acton, Isabel Bryans Longfellow, Dorothy Westring, Norman R. Jaffray, Arthur Frederic Otis, M.M. Parrish

    1950-04-22 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1950/04/22 — Cover design by Stevan Dohanos

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

  • “No Job for a Lady” by Phyllis Duganne and illustrated by Coby Whitmore
  • “Slow Convoy to the Arctic” by Robert Carse and illustrated by Paul Rabut
  • “You Can’t Print That!” by William Porter and illustrated by Ray Prohaska
  • “The Eternal Tournament” by David Walker and illustrated by Richard Hook

    • 9 ARTICLES:

  • And He Says He’s a Christian! by Ernest O. Hauser is about Hewlett Johnson
  • Why Shouldn’t I Sing? by Margaret Truman as told to Stanley Frank with full-page color photo of Margaret Truman
  • The Eye That Exposes Secrets by Milton Silverman
  • Let’s Sue the City by Rufus Jarman
  • Can He Purge Senator Pepper? by Ralph McGill
  • San Quentin Is My Home – World Without Women — Part 5 of 8 — by Warden Clinton T. Duffy as told to Dean Jennings
  • America’s Snootiest Golf Course by John LaCerda
  • I Homesteaded in Brazil by Virginia Prewett
  • All-Star Hangout by Maurice Zolotow about The Lambs Club

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • “The Man From Texas” — Part 2 of 3 — by Bill Gulick and illustrated by Harold Von Schmidt
  • “Girl In Hiding” — Part 3 of 6 — by Edwin Lanham and illustrated by Bernard D’Andrea

    • OTHER FEATURES:

  • Letters
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  • Report to the Editors
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  • Verse
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  • Coca-Cola ad on back cover “Host of the highways”

    • 1950-01-28 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1950/01/28 — ITEM DESCRIPTION:
    Cover design by George Hughes.

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

  • “The Wife Deceiver” by Stuart Cloete and illustrated by Gilbert Bundy
  • “The Phantom Flivver” by Frank Luther Mott and illustrated by Richard Hook
  • “Onslaught of Terror” by Harold Lamb and illustrated by Fred Ludekens
  • “Forbidden Marriage” by William Ashley Anderson and illustrated by Roy Price

    • 7 ARTICLES:

  • “The Highest-Paid Spy in History” by Robert M.W. Kempner
  • “The Post Reports on Divorce: Why Parents Call It Quits” — Part 2 of 5 — by David G. Wittels
  • “Nevada’s Fantastic Snow Man” by Roger Butterfield is about James Edward Church
  • “The British Think It’s Funny” by Ernest O. Hauser is about the British publication Punch
  • “What You Should Know About Your Kidneys” by Greer Williams
  • “Just Like a Movie” by H. Allen Smith
  • “Admirals to Bellhops–They Outfit ‘Em All” by Ashley Halsey, Jr. is about Reed’s in Philadelphia

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • “The White Invader” — Part 2 of 3 — by James Warner Bellah and illustrated by Harold Von Schmidt
  • “The Corpse in the Sea” — Part 4 of 8 — by Max Murray and illustrated by Richard Hook

    • OTHER FEATURES:

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  • Letters
  • Editorials
  • Verse

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Full-page for Walt Disney’s Cinderella, Barbara Hale for Chesterfields on the inside back cover, “Thirst knows no season” from Coca-Cola on the back cover.