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1949-11-12 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

1949/11/12 — Cover design by Stevan Dohanos

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

  • “The Rebellious Age” by Harold Montanye and illustrated by Ray Prohaska
  • “The Woman Hater” by Steve McNeil and illustrated by Gilbert Bundy
  • “Anxious Night” by David Lamson and illustrated by Mortimer Wilson
  • “Collision Course” by Peter Dollar and illustrated by George L. Connelly

    • 10 ARTICLES:

  • My Three Years in Moscow: What Kind of Man Is Stalin? — Part 1 — by Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith
  • How to Get Rich After Dark by John Maloney
  • Mountain Rescue Man by Virginia C. MacNeill and William L. Worden
  • Rhode Island’s Little Firecracker by Samuel Lubell is about Governor John Pastore
  • Pst! Harry Truman ‘s Got a Cowlick by Albert J. Rothe as told to Beverly Smith
  • No Crying Towels at Dartmouth by Red Smith features coach Tuss McLaughry
  • The Cities of America: Minot, North Dakota by Mark Murphy
  • The World’s Best-Fed High School by Josef Israels, II
  • Something New In Striped Pants by Ernest O. Hauser is about Ambassador James Dunn
  • That Ain’t the Way I Saw It! by Robert M. Yoder

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • “The Innocent Buccaneer” — Part 1 of 8 — by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Hy Rubin
  • “The Doctor of Unknown Island” — Part 2 of 4 — by David Divine and illustrated by James R. Bingham

    • OTHER FEATURES:

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

    • 1949-10-29 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1949/10/29 — Cover design featuring Butch the cocker spaniel is by Albert Staehle

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

  • “The Jilted Gentleman” by Phyllis Duganne and illustrated by William A. Smith
  • “We Open Tonight” by Bill Gullick and illustrated by George Englert
  • “The Kidnaped Quarterback” by William R. Scott and illustrated by Rudy Pott
  • “Terror at Daybreak” by Paul Horgan and illustrated by Richard Hook

    • 8 ARTICLES:

  • British Voters Have Their Eyes on You by Demaree Bess
  • When the Forest Burns by William L. Worden

  • Twenty Years Ago This Week by Fred Schwed, Jr.
  • Fun-Loving Frank From Dixie by Wilton Garrison is about Clemson Tigers coach Frank Howard
  • Men at Work: Country Surveyor by Richard Thruelsen
  • The Du Ponts — Part 4 of 5 — by William S. Dutton
  • We Toured the Embassy Kitchens by Elise Morrow and Mary Van Rensselaer Thayer
  • Don’t Let Them Cripple the Navy! by Rear Admiral D.V. Gallery, U.S.N.

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • “Jack of Swords” — Conclusion — by Gerald Kersh and illustrated by Ben Stahl
  • “Homicide House” — Part 6 of 7 — by David Frome and illustrated by Robert Fawcett

    • OTHER FEATURES:

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

    • 1949-08-27 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1949/08/27 — Cover design by Austin Briggs

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

  • “The Artful Bride” by Jay Wilson and illustrated by Coby Whitmore
  • “Missing in Action” by Lionel Shapiro and illustrated by Ray Prohaska
  • “The Sixth Sense” by Philip Wylie and illustrated by Rudolph Pott
  • “The Duck That Flew Backwards” by Don Tracy and illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky

    • 7 ARTICLES:

  • The Children Pay the Price by Martha Gellhorn
  • No Sport for Sissies by George Heinold
  • He’s De-Snobbing the State Department by Hugh Morrow is about John E. Peurifoy
  • How Are the DP’s Doing in America? by Sidney Shalett
  • Lapps Are the Darnedest People by Telford Hindley Work
  • Hollywood’s New Dreamboat by Stanley Frank is about Montgomery Clift
  • Our Bloody Jungle Road to Tokyo: We Caught the Japs at Breakfast — Part 3 of 7 — by Lt. Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger and Milton MacKaye

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • “Wanted for Murder” — Part 2 of 6 — by Richard Macauley and illustrated by Austin Briggs
  • “Renegade Canyon” — Part 4 of 7 — by Peter Dawson and illustrated by Fred Ludekens

    • OTHER FEATURES:

  • Letters
  • Editorials
  • Post Scripts
  • Verse
  • Keeping Posted
  • Chesterfield ad on back cover features large color image of Yvonne De Carlo

    • 1949-06-25 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1949/06/25 — Cover design by Mead Schaeffer

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

  • “The Practical Joker” by Roderick Lull and illustrated by Amos Sewell
  • “Dear Little Fool” by Agnes Sligh Turnbull and illustrated by Roy Price
  • “Moon Crazy” by William R. Shelton and illustrated by Ken Riley
  • “The Wife He Left Behind” by Grace Sartwell Mason and illustrated by Bernard D’Andrea

    • 8 ARTICLES:

  • The Forbidden City of Greenland by Thomas R. Henry
  • Ogunquit – Resort Town Down East by Pete Martin
  • An Admiral Talks Back to the Airmen by Rear Admiral D.V. Gallery, U.S.N.
  • The First Negro Graduate of Annapolis Tells His Story by Ensign Wesley A. Brown, U.S.N.
  • What Did the Airlift Really Prove? by Demaree Bess
  • W.C. Fields – Rowdy King of Comedy — Part 6 of 8 — by Robert Lewis Taylor
  • In Grandpa’s Shoes by Arthur W. Baum is about the Heinz family
  • One Week in Hell by Colonel J.C. Fry, U.S.A.

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • “Stolen Goods” — Part 3 of 8 — by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Perry Peterson
  • “Perilous Passage” — Conclusion — by Arthur Mayse and illustrated by James R. Bingham

    • OTHER FEATURES:

  • Letters
  • Editorials
  • Post Scripts
  • Verse
  • Keeping Posted
  • Wheaties ad on back cover features 3 images of Baseball Hall of Famer Lou Boudreau and family

    • 1949-04-23 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1949/04/23 — Cover design “Game Called Because of Rain (Tough Call)” is by Norman Rockwell

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

  • “Gift From the Heart” by Frank O’Rouke and illustrated by Douglass Crockwell
  • “Don’t Shoot, Darling!” by Donald MacKenzie Watt and illustrated by Richard Hook
  • “Ride into Danger” by Bennett Foster and illustrated by William A. Smith
  • “Battle for a Bride” by Florence Christian and illustrated by Robert W. Douglass

    • 10 ARTICLES:

  • What Of Our Future? by Bernard M. Baruch
  • Radio’s Most Embarrassing Moments by J. Bryan, III
  • Why Cops Turn Crooked by David G. Wittels
  • It’s Hard to Fool a Fish by Rufus Jarman
  • Ireland’s New Man of Destiny by James P. O’Donnell
  • So You Want to Run a Ballclub? by Bill Veeck with Gordon Cobbledick
  • Are Gadgets Replacing the Housewife? by Robert M. Yoder
  • Harvard’s Prize Kibitzer — Part 1 of 2 — by Kermit Roosevelt
  • Musicians Have to be Crazy by Joseph Wechsberg
  • I Saved the Panama Canal by Josephine Crisler

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • “Fugitive From Terror” — Part 3 of 5 — by James R. Webb and illustrated by Ben Stahl
  • “Midnight Boy” — Conclusion — by George Agnew Chamberlain and illustrated by Geoffrey Biggs

    • OTHER FEATURES:

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

    • 1949-04-02 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1949/04/02 — Cover design featuring Butch the cocker spaniel is by Albert Staehle

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

  • “The Lure of Danger” by Zachary Gold and illustrated by Douglass Crockwell
  • “The President’s Advice” by Ambrose Flack and illustrated by George Garland
  • “The Lady Couldn’t Decide” by Steve McNeil and illustrated by George Englert
  • “Yankee Riot” by John Paul Heffernan and illustrated by Noel Sickles

    • 8 ARTICLES:

  • Rebel in Illinois by Joe Alex Morris is about Adlai Stevenson
  • How Russian Children Lost Their God by Nina Alexeieva
  • Pipe Liners Live with Peril by Harold H. Martin
  • Fine Thing to Call a Lady! by Robert M. Yoder
  • Uncle Sam’s Strange Filing Case by Henry F. and Kartharine Pringle
  • Broadway’s Most Successful Eccentric — Part 2 of 2 — by Maurice Zolotow about Jed Harris
  • I Went Out With Trawlers by Charles Rawlings
  • Men at Work: Newspaper Reporter by Richard Thruelsen

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • “Midnight Boy” — Part 4 of 7 — by George Agnew Chamberlain and illustrated by Geoffrey Biggs
  • “Rustler’s Range” — Part 7 of 7 — by Monte Barrett and illustrated by Donald Teague

    • OTHER FEATURES:

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

    • 1949-03-19 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1949/03/19 — Cover design by Norman Rockwell

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

  • “The Last Pitch” by Frank O’Rourke and illustrated by Robert Riggs
  • “Too Late to Dream” by Jay Wilson and illustrated by Roy Price
  • “Crime Without Reason” by Abbie Craig Stelts and illustrated by Glenn Grohe
  • “Elope With a Stranger” by Arthur Gordon and illustrated by George Englert

    • NOVELETTE:

  • “Intercept at Dawn” by Alec Hudson and illustrated by James R. Bingham

    • 8 ARTICLES:

  • The World’s Biggest Business Gets a New Boss by Jack Alexander with A.T. & T. President Leroy Wilson
  • The Mayor of Porky Gulch is about Joe Dodge
  • He Outwitted the Russians by Beverly Smith
  • How to Pick a Congressman by Lynn Bowers and Dorothy Blair featuring the new “dynamic young” Richard Nixon, early Nixon
  • Our Child Has Cerebral Palsy by Genevieve R. Langston
  • I Solved These Firebug Mysteries — Part 3 of 3 — by Thomas Patrick Brophy

  • The Strange Career of Milton Berle by Robert Sylvester
  • The Southernmost City on Earth — A Post Picture Story

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • “Midnight Boy” — Part 2 of 7 — by George Agnew Chamberlain and illustrated by Geoffrey Biggs
  • “Rustler’s Range” — Part 5 of 7 — by Monte Barrett and illustrated by Donald Teague

    • OTHER FEATURES:

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

    • 1949-03-05 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1949/03/05 — Cover design by Stevan Dohanos

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

  • “The Devil Behind Her” by W. Caldwell Webb and illustrated by Bernard D’Andrea
  • “Remember Me, Soldier?” by Roderick Lull and illustrated by William A. Smith
  • “Fixed Fight” by Joel Reeve and illustrated by Richard Lyon
  • “Too Old to Be Useful” by Glenn Allan and illustrated by Floyd Davis

    • NOVELETTE:

  • “Hornblower and the Trap” by C.S. Forester and illustrated by Ben Stahl

    • 7 ARTICLES:

  • I Solved These Firebug Mysteries — Part 1 of 3 — by Thomas Patrick Brophy
  • The Cities of America: St. Augustine by Leigh White
  • The World’s Richest Mineral Stock Pile by Frank J. Taylor

  • The CIO’s Political Hot-Shot by High Morrow
  • Must They Be Born That Way? by Steven M. Spencer
  • Don’t Shoot Your Wife Before March Fifteenth by Robert M. Yoder
  • Chile’s Hard-Luck Railway — A Post Picture Story

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • “Rustler’s Range” — Part 3 of 7 — by Monte Barrett and illustrated by Donald Teague

  • “Date With Death” — Conclusion — by Leslie Ford and illustrated by Edwin Georgi

    • OTHER FEATURES:

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

    • 1949-02-05 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1949/02/05 — Cover design by John Falter

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

  • “Big Man on the Campus” by Michael Fessier and illustrated by Gilbert Bundy
  • “Medicine Woman” by Irving Gaynor Neiman and illustrated by Bernard D’Andrea
  • “Mr. Gallup and the Mysterious Cargo” by Norman Reilly Raine and illustrated by Anton Otto Fischer
  • “Outcast of the Mountains” by William Ashley Anderson and illustrated by Ken Riley

    • 7 ARTICLES:

  • Biggest Things Afloat — Part 1 of 2 — by Rufus Jarman is about the big ships such as the Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary
  • The Marine Corps Fights for Its Life by Richard Tregaskis
  • I Lost My Battle With Cancer by John A. Brody
  • The Mayor Russia Hates by James P. O’Donnell is about Ernst Reuter
  • My Fifty Years in the White House — Part 8 of 8 — by Ira R.T. Smith with Joe Alex Morris
  • Look What the Church Is Doing Now! by Hartzell Spence
  • Want $3750 for a Nickel? by Wilfred Weiss focuses on numismatist B. Max Mehl with photos of some of the more valuable and collectible coins

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • “Date With Death” — Part 4 of 8 — by Leslie Ford and illustrated by Edwin Georgi
  • “Ambush” — Part 7 of 8 — by Luke Short and illustrated by Harold Von Schmidt

    • OTHER FEATURES:

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

    • 1949-01-01 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1949/01/01 — Cover design by Constantin Alajalov

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

  • “The Friendship” by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and illustrated by Amos Sewell
  • “Icy Angel” by Joseph Wechsberg and illustrated by Gilbert Bundy
  • “Ten Minutes to Live” by Kingsley Tufts and illustrated by William A. Smith
  • “Tomorrow Never Comes” by Frank O’Rourke and illustrated by Larry Kritcher

    • 8 ARTICLES:

  • They Ask to Be Killed by David G. Wittels
  • I Say Milk Costs Too Much by Paul L. Coates with Arnold Nicholson
  • Are We Losing Out in Greece? by Homer Bigart
  • The Cities of America: Cleveland by Mary Ellen and Mark Murphy
  • I Prowled Russia’s Forbidden Zone — Part 4 of 4 — by Werner Knop
  • My Fifty Years in the White House — Part 3 of 8 — by Ira R.T. Smith with Joe Alex Morris
  • The Coldfire Boys by Frank J. Taylor
  • Trouble in Alaska Game Lands by Russell Annabel

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • “Ambush” — Part 2 of 8 — by Luke Short and illustrated by Harold Von Schmidt
  • “Murder for Millions” — Part 7 of 8 — by Nancy Rutledge and illustrated by Austin Briggs

    • OTHER FEATURES:

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

    • 1948-11-27 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1948/11/27 — Cover design by Constantin Alajalov

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

  • “The Haunted Meadow” by W.A. Powers and illustrated by Glenn Grohe
  • “The Unwelcome Neighbors” by Charles J. Doyle and illustrated by Amos Sewell
  • “Man Trap” by Thomas Walsh and illustrated by Paul Nonnast
  • “First Quarrel” by David Lamson and illustrated by Glen Fleischmann

    • 9 ARTICLES:

  • Can the Army and Navy Get Together? by James Forrestal, Secretary of Defense with Sidney Shalett
  • The Fabulous Strike in Labrador by Leslie Roberts
  • What You Don’t Know About Thanksgiving by Roger Butterfield
  • How We Caught Spies in World War II — Part 1 of 3 — by Stephen J. Spingarn with Milton Lehman
  • The Gay Deceiver of Georgia Tech by Fred Russell
  • Allah’s Oil: World’s Richest Prize — Part 2 of 2 — by Leigh White
  • Everybody Gets in the Act by David Dempsey and Dan Herr
  • I Might Have Married Him by Virginia Bennett Linton

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • “Murder for Millions” — Part 2 of 8 — by Nancy Rutledge and illustrated by Austin Briggs
  • “Dishonored” — Part 6 of 6 — by Martha Albrand and illustrated by B. Kimberly Prins

    • OTHER FEATURES:

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

    • 1948-11-20 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1948/11/20 — Cover design by John Falter

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

  • “Stage from Elkhorn” by James Warner Bellah and illustrated by Noel Sickles
  • “Holiday for Mother” by Val Teal and illustrated by Stevan Dohanos
  • “A Husband’s Rights” by Eleanor Gilchrist and illustrated by Gilbert Bundy
  • “In Quest of Peril” by William Ashley Anderson and illustrated by Paul Rabut

    • BOOK CONDENSATION:

  • Howlin’ Mad’s Own Story: Iwo Jima Cost Too Much by Gen. Holland M. Smith and Percy Finch

    • 9 ARTICLES:

  • Allah’s Oil: World’s Richest Prize — Part 1 of 3 — by Leigh White
  • The Cities of America: Lexington by Alvin F. Harlow
  • The Europeans You Never Read About by Stewart Alsop
  • Football’s Biggest Bargain by Al Stump is about Small-college competition exemplified by Oregon’s Willamette
  • They Fight the Cold War Under Cover by Donald Robinson is about our “new cloak-and-dagger outfit” the C.I.A.
  • Baby Sitting’s Big Business Now by Jerome Ellison
  • The Land Where Whoppers Come True by Cameron Shipp
  • Your Neighbors: The Parmelees by George Sessions Perry
  • Our Next Magic Metal? by Thomas R. Henry is about titanium

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • “Murder for Millions” — Part 1 of 8 — by Nancy Rutledge and illustrated by Austin Briggs
  • “Dishonored” — Part 5 of 6 — by Martha Albrand and illustrated by B. Kimberly Prins

    • OTHER FEATURES:

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

    • 1948-10-30 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1948/10/30 — Cover design by Norman Rockwell

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

  • “A Girl Ought to Live First” by Walter O’Meara and illustrated by Ben Stahl
  • “The Hitchhiker Had a Gun” by George Sumner Albee and illustrated by Hy Rubin
  • “The Astonishing Whim” by Laurence Kirk and illustrated by George Englert
  • “High Steel” by Ray Millholland and illustrated by Fred Ludekens

    • 8 ARTICLES:

  • Should We Repeal the Taft-Hartley Law? by J. Mack Swigert
  • Big Beautiful Swede by Pete Martin is about Ingrid Bergman and includes a full page black & white photo of Bergman (see also advertising featuring Bergman below)
  • Your Neighbors: The Wullenwebers by George Sessions Perry
  • Football’s Strangest Fan by Stanley Frank is about Dr. Louis Henry Levy a.k.a. L.H. Baker
  • The Cities of America: Niagara Falls by Henry F. and Katharine Pringle
  • The Precision Politics of Thomas E. Dewey by Sidney Shalett
  • Kids Believe the Darnedest Things by Robert M. Yoder
  • Women at Work: Fashion Editor by Richard Thruelsen

    • CARTOON FEATURE:

  • The New Suit: The New Dress by Tom Henderson and M. Blanchard

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • “Dishonored” — Part 2 of 6 — by Martha Albrand and illustrated by B. Kimberly Prins
  • “Politico” — Part 6 of 8 — by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Perry Peterson

    • OTHER FEATURES:

  • Letters
  • Keeping Posted
  • Report to the Editors
  • Post Scripts
  • Verse
  • Editorials
  • Beautiful full-page color ad featuring Ingrid Bergman in Joan of Arc

    • 1948-10-23 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1948/10/23 — Cover design by Constantin Alajalov

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

  • “TNT” by Stave Hail and illustrated by Melbourne Brindle
  • “The Lady on the Highway” by Norbert Davis and illustrated by Roy Price
  • “The Lonesome Bear” by Harrison Kinney and illustrated by George L. Connelly
  • “Sentence of Death” by Thomas Walsh and illustrated by Ken Riley

    • NOVELETTE:

  • “Heiress Overnight” by Audrey DeGraf and illustrated by Edwin Georgi

    • 7 ARTICLES:

  • The Boiling Bronx: Henry Wallace Stronghold by Samuel Lubell
  • Football Fans Aren’t Human by Mary Stuhldreher
  • How I Put Down the Redskins by J.H. Peck, M.D. with drawings by Leo Hershfield
  • Hell’s Orphans by Joseph Wechsberg is about children kidnapped by the Nazis
  • Errand Boy No. 1 — Part 2 of 2 — by Arthur W. Baum is about Railway Express
  • Your Neighbors: The Hayneses by George Sessions Perry
  • We Ride the Fighting Rogue by Wessel Smitter

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • “Dishonored” — Part 1 o f 6 — by Martha Albrand and illustrated by B. Kimberly Prins
  • “Politico” — Part 5 of 8 — by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Perry Peterson

    • OTHER FEATURES:

  • Letters
  • Keeping Posted
  • Report to the Editors
  • Post Scripts
  • Verse
  • Editorials
  • Full page ad for The Boy With Green Hair featuring a black & white image of Dean Stockwell with green hair
  • Full-page black & white ad for Red River with the title printed in red ink. Cartoon image clearly features John Wayne. Noted in the ad “Based on the original Saturday Evening Post serial “The Chisholm Trail” by Borden Chase

    • 1948-10-16 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1948/10/16 — Cover design by George Hughes

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

  • “Scandalous Conduct” by Robert Carson and illustrated by Wesley Snyder
  • “The Last Fight” by James Warner Bellah and illustrated by Harold Von Schmidt
  • “The Tourist’s Mistake” by Kingsley Tufts and illustrated by J. Graham Kaye
  • “Fire Detective” by David Lamson and illustrated by William A. Smith

    • NOVELETTE:

  • “The Mysterious Knife” by Harold Lamson and illustrated by Amos Sewell

    • 9 ARTICLES:

  • What Kind of President Will Dewey Make? by Joseph and Stewart Alsop
  • How I Got My Goat by Bing Crosby
  • Your Neighbors: The Wongs by George Sessions Perry
  • Too Many People! by Martin Ebon
  • Errand Boy No. 1 by Arthur W. Baum about Railway Express
  • Why Is Our Air Force Back in Europe? by Demaree Bess
  • Kentucky Samaritan by John Maloney
  • The Lively Hermit of Friday Mountain by Stanley Walker is about Roy Bedichek aka “Bedi the Bird Man”
  • Gay Old Man by Joseph Wechsberg is about playwright Ferenc Molnar

    • SERIAL:

  • “Politico” — Part 4 of 8 — by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Perry Peterson

    • OTHER FEATURES:

  • Letters
  • Keeping Posted
  • Report to the Editors
  • Post Scripts
  • Verse
  • Editorials
  • Full-page black and white ad for Alfred Hitchcock ‘s Rope with a large image of Jimmy Stewart

    • 1948-10-09 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1948/10/09 — Cover design by Mead Schaeffer

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

  • “Unwanted Woman” by Annemarie Ewing and illustrated by Richard Hook
  • “One More Inning” by Frank O’Rourke and illustrated by Robert Riggs
  • “Suicide Flight” by Walt Grove and illustrated by James R. Bingham
  • “Strange Wedding” by I.A.R. Wylie and illustrated by Ben Stahl

    • NOVELETTE:

  • “Divorcee’s Choice” by Eustace L. Adams and illustrated by Alex Ross

    • 8 ARTICLES:

  • Can We Defend the Panama Canal by Sidney Shalett
  • People Will Buy Anything by George H. Bean

    • Football’s Lazy Terror by Russ Davis is about Steve Van Buren

  • Your Neighbors: The Offerdahls by George Sessions Perry
  • A Fighting General Tells His Story: Waging Peace with the Russian Needlers by Maj. Gen. E.N. Harmon and Milton MacKaye
  • The Old Ships Come Home by Hamilton Cochran
  • The Cities of America: Jackson, Mississippi by Harold H. Martin
  • We Need More Country Doctors by Steven M. Spencer

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • “Politico” — Part 3 of 8 — by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Perry Peterson
  • “The Steel Mirror” — Conclusion by Donald Hamilton and illustrated by Geoffrey Biggs

    • OTHER FEATURES:

  • Letters
  • Keeping Posted
  • Report to the Editors
  • Post Scripts
  • Verse
  • Editorials
  • Interesting General Mills ad features a letter from Betty Crocker “To the girl who married Bob Feller” with a half-page color photo of Mrs. Virginia Feller with sons, Stevie, 3, and Marty, 1, hovered over a book with a photo of Feller in uniform behind them
  • Coca-Cola ad on back cover — “Pause to Refresh…Have a Coca-Cola”

    • 1948-10-02 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1948/10/02 — Cover design by Stevan Dohanos

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

  • “Career Woman” by Eleanor Gilchrist and illustrated by Edwin Georgi
  • “Black Mystery” by Pierre Ryckmans and illustrated by Bernard D’Andrea
  • “The Low-Brow and the Lady” by Gertrude Schweitzer and illustrated by Wesley Snyder
  • “Menacing Cargo” by Robert Carse and illustrated by Fred Ludekens

    • 8 ARTICLES:

  • Doctor Huxley’s Wonderful Zoo by Ernest O. Hauser
  • The Case for President Truman by Sen. J. Howard McGrath
  • Football’s Purity Man by Al Stump is about Oregon State Coach Lon Stiner
  • Your Neighbors: The Gonzalezes by George Sessions Perry
  • The Prima Donna Is a Roughneck by Stanley Frank is about Helen Traubel
  • Is There An Inventor in the House? by Robert M. Yoder with drawing by Carl Rose
  • Mule College by James Louis Kundean with James F. Payne
  • A Fighting General Tells His Story: We Gambled in the Battle of the Bulge by Maj. Gen. E.N. Harmon and Milton Mackaye

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • “Politico” — Part 2 of 8 — by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Perry Peterson
  • “The Steel Mirror” — Part 7 of 8 — by Donald Hamilton and illustrated by Geoffrey Biggs

    • OTHER FEATURES:

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

    • 1948-08-28 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1948/08/28 — Cover design by Stevan Dohanos

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

  • “No One Will Ever Know” by Geoffrey Household
  • “High Test” by David Lamson and illustrated by James R. Bingham
  • “Logger’s Comeback” by Arthur Mayse and illustrated by Donald Teague
  • “Meddling Woman” by James Charles Lynch and illustrated by S.B. Valentine

    • 8 ARTICLES:

  • Giant of the North — Part 1 of 3 — by Temple Fielding
  • World’s Greatest Treasure Hunt by J.D. Ratcliff
  • Grandpa Was a Smuggler by Sumner Pike, as told to Sidney Shalett
  • Russia’s Red Ace in the Ruhr by James O’Donnell is about Willi Agatz
  • Can Gandhi ‘s Heir Do His Job? by Edgar Snow is about Jawaharlal Nehru
  • The Cities of America: Richmond by J. Bryan, III

  • Golf’s Own Home Town by Allan A. Michie
  • The Misunderstood Monarch by Ivan T. Sanderson is about lions

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • “The Steel Mirror” — Part 2 of 8 — by Donald Hamilton and illustrated by Geoffrey Biggs
  • “The D.A. Takes a Chance” — Part 5 of 8 — by Erle Stanley Gardner and illustrated by Robert Fawcett

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    • 1948-07-03 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1948/07/03 — Cover design by John Falter

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

  • “Treasure Trap” by Don Waters and illustrated by Bernard D’Andrea
  • “Honeymoon for Three” by David Lamson and illustrated by S.B. Valentine

  • “The Pay-Off Punch” by Harry Newman and illustrated by Fred Ludekens

  • “The Other Woman” by Loretta Burrough and illustrated by George L. Connelly

    • 8 ARTICLES:

  • Look What He’s Doing to Chicago! by Charles B. Cleveland is about Mayor Martin Kennelly
  • Was Ambassador Oumansky Murdered? by Kirrill Mikhailovich Alexeev
  • Do Campaigns Really Change Votes? by George Gallup and William A. Lydgate
  • Mr. Universe by John Durant is about Steve Stanko
  • We’ll Have Fewer Cavities Now by Jerome Ellison
  • My Twelve Years With FDR — Part 5 of 8 — by Harold L. Ickes
  • Broadway’s Happy Hartmans by Maurice Zolotow with color photos of Grace and Paul Hartman
  • Two Weeks With Pay by Robert M. Yoder and Don Tobin

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • “Till Death Do Us Part” — Conclusion — by John and Ward Hawkins and illustrated by George Hughes
  • “No Escape” — Conclusion — by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Hy Rubin

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  • Rosalind Russell ad for Chesterfields on the back cover

    • 1947-11-08 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1947/11/08 — Cover design by Norman Rockwell

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

  • “Lash of Fear” by James Warner Bellah and illustrated by Harold Von Schmidt
  • “You Frenchmen Know All About Women” by Joseph Wechsberg and illustrated by Richard Hook
  • “Time for Action” by David Lamson and illustrated by Bernard D’Andrea
  • “Winner’s Woman” by Richard Stern and illustrated by Thornton Utz

    • FULL LENGTH NOVEL (In Three Parts):

  • “No Trumpet Before Him” — Part 1 of 3 — by Nelia Gardner White and illustrated by Phil Dormont

    • 10 ARTICLES:

  • Homesteading Isn’t for Softies by Russell Annabel
  • Star-Dust Troubadour by Pete Martin is about Hoagy Carmichael
  • The Cities of America: Jacksonville by Theodore Pratt
  • The Atom’s Odd Young Man by Jack Beall is about Carroll Wilson
  • Russia Builds a Base in Japan by Darrell Berrigan
  • It’s No Disgrace to Be a Rat by George Heinold
  • Football’s Demon Deacon by Collie Small is about Peahead Walker
  • Mr. Flowers, Inc. by Jean Libman Block is about Paul Pergakis

  • Supermarket by Ted Key
  • Nabob’s Chariot by Irving Wallace is about the Rolls-Royce

    • SERIAL:

  • “Maddon’s Rock” — Part 5 of 8 — by Hammond Innes and illustrated by George Hughes

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    • 1947-07-05 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1947/07/05 — ITEM DESCRIPTION:
    Cover design by Stevan Dohanos.

    Complete contents picked up from the contents page of this issue are as follows:
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  • “Verdict from the Heart” by H.E. Bates and illustrated by Austin Briggs
  • “Night of Triumph” by Norman Katkov and illustrated by L.R. Gustavson
  • “Oil and Saints Don’t Mix” by C. Vernon Frost and illustrated by J. Graham Kaye
  • “The Expensive Mr. Botts” by William Hazlett Upson and illustrated by Albert Dorne

    • 7 ARTICLES:

  • Will the Spanish Town Live Again by Irving Wallace
  • They Signed Away Their Lives for You by Roger Butterfield, “a collective portrait of the defiant patriots who signed our Declaration of Independence”
  • I’ll Bet You Can’t Talk Either by Robert D. Potter
  • The Cities of America — Tulsa — 34th of a Series by Wesley W. Stout
  • Hard-Luck Champion by Howard Roberts is about Tony Zale
  • Admiral Halsey Tells His Story — Part 4 of 9 –by Fleet Admiral William J. Halsey, USN, with Lt. Comdr. J. Bryan III, USNR
  • Just What the Motorist Ordered by Frank J. Taylor

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • “Extra! Extra!” — Part 5 of 8 — by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Stevan Dohanos
  • “High Vermilion” — Conclusion — by Luke Short and illustrated by Harold Von Schmidt

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    • 1947-03-08 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1947/03/08 — ITEM DESCRIPTION:
    Cover design by Stevan Dohanos.

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  • “Barry Ward’s Beard” by Robert E. Pinkerton and illustrated by glenn Grohe
  • “The Girl and the Genius” by Herbert Depew and illustrated by Roy Price
  • “Fair-Caught” by Philip Wylie and illustrated by Rudolph Pott
  • “Pamela Makes Up Their Minds” by Ruth Rankin Lamson and illustrated by George Hughes

    • 8 ARTICLES:

  • Mr. National Defense by Beverly Smith is about Congressman James W. Wadsworth
  • Don’t Scoff at Sea Monsters by Ivan T. Sanderson and illustrated by Paul Nonnast
  • Australia Wakes Up a Pacific Power by Harold J. Noble
  • Mexico’s Baseball Raiders Ride Again by Milton Bracker about the Pasquel brothers with photos including Mickey Owen and Adolfo Luque
  • Broadway’s New Matinee Idol by Stanley Frank is about Jose Ferrer
  • The Millionaires’ Best Friend by Roger Butterfield is about the director for the National Gallery of Art, David Finley, with three pages of color reproductions
  • Nobody Wants to Be a Coal Miner by Samuel Lubell
  • The Alley Fighters of the 96th by Orlando Davidson

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • “Final Curtain” Part 1 of 6 by Ngaio Marsh & illustrated by Robert Fawcett
  • “Barracuda” Part 4 of 7 by Richard Powell and illustrated by Alex Ross

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    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Gulfpride Oil with color illustration by James Bingham, United States Steel ad with color illustration by Keith Ward, half-page ad features Charlie Keller for Munsingwear, Revere Copper and Brass Inc ad with color illustration by Albert Dorne.

    1947-01-11 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1947/01/11 — Cover design by Norman Rockwell

    Complete contents picked up from the contents page of this issue are as follows:
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  • “Mr. Gallup Delivers the Goods” by Norman Reilly Raine and illustrated by Anton Otto Fischer
  • “A Crack in the Ice” by Irving Gaynor Neiman and illustrated by Gail Phillips
  • “Campaign Special” by Thomas Walsh and illustrated by George Englert
  • “The Proper Man for Fidelia” by G.S. Hollis and illustrated by Tom Hall

    • 8 ARTICLES:

  • Tullahoma’s Big Adventure by Rufus Jarman
  • Gossip Is Her Business by Collie Small is about Hedda Hopper
  • They Couldn’t Purge Vito by Sidney Shalett is about Congressman Vito Marcantonio
  • The Man Who Swindled Goering by Irving Wallace
  • “Lookit Those Old Buzzards Go!” by Lt. Col. Max Myers, Inactive
  • My Days With Gutzon Borglum by William J. Bulow with Mount Rushmore photos
  • Prodigious Perry Greene by John Durant
  • Sunday Afternoon — Cartoons by Stan Hunt

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • “Showroom” Part 4 of 8 by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Hy Rubin
  • “The Chisholm Trail” Part 6 of 6 by Borden Chase and illustrated by Mead Schaeffer

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    • 1946-12-28 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1946/12/28 — ITEM DESCRIPTION:
    Cover design by Mead Schaeffer.

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

  • “Keep the Girl on the Fence” by Frank Leon Smith and illustrated by Peter Helck
  • “The Whizzer” by Kenneth Perkins and illustrated by Lonie Bee
  • “Not for Millions” by Robert Ormond Case and illustrated by L.R. Gustavson
  • “Only Thieves Explain” by Norman Katkov and illustrated by Austin Briggs

    • 7 ARTICLES:

  • “I Hunt Ghost Gold” by Oren Arnold
  • “The Cities of America — Brooklyn” 25th of a Series by William Fay
  • “Living in a Dead Man’s Suit” by Frank S. Stuart
  • “They Just Can’t Make Up Their Minds” by Leslie Roberts is about Newfoundland
  • “Cops Don’t Have to be Brutal” by Warner Olivier
  • “Hollywood’s Fabulous Female” by Pete Martin is about Greer Garson and includes a full-page color photo of Garson by Gene Lester
  • “Men at Work — Sideman With a Horn” by Richard Thruelsen

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • “Showroom” Part 2 of 8 by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Hy Rubin
  • “The Chisholm Trail” Part 4 of 6 by Borden Chase and illustrated by Mead Schaeffer

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  • full-page ad for The Barrett Division w/ black & white illustration of a dog by Albert Staehle (not Butch though)

    • 1946-12-21 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1946/12/21 — ITEM DESCRIPTION:
    Cover design by John Falter.

    Complete contents picked up from the contents page of this issue are as follows:
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  • “The Beautiful Constituent” by Robert Carson and illustrated by Alex Ross
  • “We’ve Had a Lovely Time” by Samuel W. Taylor and illustrated by Hank Berger
  • “The Fortunes of Pedro” by Kingsley Tufts and illustrated by J. Graham Kaye
  • “Souse of the Border” by Guy Gilpatric and illustrated by George Hughes

    • 7 ARTICLES:

  • “How We Find Missing Persons” by Capt. John G. Stein as told to Stewart Robertson
  • “Good Doctors Are Hard to Find” by Greer Williams
  • “The All-American Team” by Richard C. Harlow with a page containing photos of the following 11 players: Hubert Bechtol, Burr Baldwin, Dick Huffman, Goerge Connor, Charles Trippi, Glenn Davis, Felix Blanchard, John Lujack, Al Agase, Weldon Humble, Paul Duke
  • “Where the Russians Like Us, But–” by Ernest O. Hauser
  • “Dragon Music” by Herbert Ravenel Sass is about alligators
  • “They Wrote Their Story in Blood” by Lee McCardell is about the 79th Infantry Division
  • “How Christmas Ties Get That Way” by Oren Arnold

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • “Showroom” Part 1 of 8 by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Hy Rubin
  • “The Chisholm Trail” Part 3 of 6 by Borden Chase and illustrated by Mead Schaeffer

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