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1958-06-21 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

1958/06/21 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: Cover design by John Falter.

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

  • “Miss Carlsen is Mine” by Ken W. Purdy and illustrated by Morgan Kane
  • “The Girl Who Had Accidents” by D.K. Findlay and illustrated by Joe Bowler
  • “Disaster in the Outback” by Edward Lindall and illustrated by Harold Von Schmidt
  • “Botts Takes the Bait” by William Hazlett Upson and illustrated by Walter Skov

    • ARTICLES:

  • “Our First Man in Outer Space” by Clay Blair, Jr. is about Scotty Crossfield
  • “The Man Who Talks to Tapirs” by Harold H. Martin
  • “Our Houseboat Vacation” by Arthur W. Baum
  • “The Post Reports on Health Insurance, Part III: Is This the Pattern of the Future?” by Milton Silverman
  • “The Face of America: The Perfect Month” — Photograph by Don Hunter
  • “I Call on Lawrence Welk” by Pete Martin
  • “Gold Rush Every Weekend” by Robert Cahn

    • SERIALS:

  • “Frame-Up for Murder” part 1 of 3 by Rex Stout and illustrated by Austin Briggs
  • “The Chains of Fear” part 5 of 8 by Nikolai Narokov and illustrated by Stevan Dohanos

    • OTHER FEATURES:

  • Letters
  • Editorials
  • Post Scripts
  • Verse
  • Keeping Posted
  • Lucky Strike Cigarettes ad on back cover

    • 1958-08-09 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1958/08/09 — Cover design by Earl Mayan

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

  • “Escape from Women” by Steve McNeil

  • “Dangerous Quarry” by Williams Forrest and illustrated by Fred Ludekens
  • “Convict’s Secret” by John and Ward Hawkins and illustrated by Thornton Utz
  • “Forbidden Fancy” by Edward Lindall

    • 8 ARTICLES:

  • Mr. Unpredictable by Jack Alexander is about Massachussets Governor Foster Furcolo
  • I Call on Danny Kaye by Pete Martin

  • The Face of America: 1404 Windows to Wash — Photograph by H. Landshoff

  • Port for Fresh-Water Sailors by Arthur W. Baum
  • The Rap Gangsters Fear Most by Stanley Frank refers to deportation. Photos include Sam Accardi, Vito Genovese, Lucky Luciano, Joe Adonis and Russell Bufalino.

  • Mecca for Antique Hunters by Ernest O. Hauser
  • Baltimore’s Bonus-Baby Blues by Harry T. Paxton about the Baltimore Orioles
  • You’re on this List by Robert M. Yoder

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • “A Day in Monte Carlo” — Part 2 of 6 — by Martha Albrand and illustrated by Ken Riley
  • “I Married Murder” — Part 5 of 8 — by Edwin Lanham

    • OTHER FEATURES:

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

    • 1959-11-21 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1959/11/21 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: Cover design by Thornton Utz.

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

  • “That First Husband” by John O’Hara and illustrated by Mike Ludlow
  • “Bottle of Death” by Gilbert Ralston and illustrated by Mitchell Hooks
  • “Meeting By Moonlight” by Paul Darcy Boles
  • “Mr. Gallup and the Cargo Snatchers” by Norman Reilly Raine and illustrated by Stan Galli

    • ARTICLES:

  • “We Salvaged the African Queen” by Lloyd Deir, as told to Clay Blair, Jr.
  • “The Face of America: Noisy Little Race” — Photograph by John Burns
  • “A Primer for Chumps” by Philip G. Fox as told to Stanley Frank is about gambling odds
  • “Saving Children from Mental Retardation” by Ruth and Edward Brecher
  • “The Fans Expect Him to Win” by Tom Siler is about S.M.U. coach Bill Meek
  • “The Jerry Geisler Story, Part II: The Chaplin Case” by Jerry Geisler, as told to Pete Martin in which the defense lawyer talks about the 1944 Charlie Chaplin morals case and the unusual Lili St. Cyr trial
  • “Inside the Vatican” by Ernest O. Hauser
  • “Adventures of the Mind, 40: What Is Existentialism?” by William Barrett
  • “They Suit the Big Shots” by Peter Wyden about Swartz Brothers in Baltimore

    • SERIALS:

  • “Violence on the Plains” part 1 of 8 by Charles O. Locke and illustrated by Fred Otnes
  • “Too Many Ghosts” part 4 of 7 by Paul Gallico

    • OTHER FEATURES:

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

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Charlton Heston & Gary Cooper in “The Wreck of the Mary Deare”*, Delco Batteries with art by Steig*, and a Coca-Cola ad on the back cover. (Note ads that are smaller than a full page are marked with an asterisk (*))

    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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 1956-05-19 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1956/05/19 — Cover design by Norman Rockwell

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

  • “I’ll Never Marry Again” by Phyllis Duganne and illustrated by Morgan Kane
  • “Next!” by Harlan Ware
  • “The Boy Who Couldn’t Be Saved” by Norma Patterson and illustrated by Douglass Crockwell
  • “Crooked Game” by Ed Montgomery

    • NOVELETTE:

  • “Within the Law” by John Cunningham and illustrated by Roebrt Moore

    • 10 ARTICLES:

  • I Saw Communist China: Nightmare for the West — Part 1 of 3 — by Robert Guillain
  • A Passion for Pancakes by Sophie Kerr
  • Rising Star of Britain by Beverly Smith is about Anthony Nutting

  • The Fight Over Fluoridation by J.C. Furnas
  • Inferno in the Sky by Frank Harvey
  • The New Marilyn Monroe – Blonde, Incorporated — Part 3 of 3 — by Pete Martin — includes 6-5/8″ X 13-5/8″ color photo of Marilyn Monroe
  • Death Rides Beside Me by Frank “Rebel” Mundy as told to Furman Bisher
  • The Face of America: The Old Mill – Photograph by Frank Ross
  • Your Dog’s Next Best Friend by Burton J. Rowles
  • How to Build Your Own Church by Booton Herndon

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • “Trouble at Coley Falls” — Conclusion — by William Chamberlain
  • “The Wreck of the Mary Deare” — Part 6 of 8 — by Hammond Innes

    • OTHER FEATURES:

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

    • 1956-07-14 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1956/07/14 — ITEM DESCRIPTION:
    Cover design by Constantin Alajalov.

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

  • “The Black Pool” by Eric Hatch and illustrated by Fred Ludekens
  • “The Trusting Type” by Merle Constiner
  • “Morgan’s Wife” by William Holder
  • “Susana and the Shepherd” by Margaret Craven and illustrated by Ben Stahl

    • 7 ARTICLES:

  • “The Case of Prisoner No. 16688” by John Kobler is about Roy Eaton
  • “The Face of America: The Land of Dancing Waters” Photograph by Harland Sutherland
  • “Out Tax Laws Make Us Dishonest” by Cameron Hawley
  • “The Lighthearted Battler of TV” by Bill Slocum is about John Daly
  • “The New Red Peril in Japan” by Demaree Bess
  • “The Things They Ask Me to Do!” by Sam O. Gamble, as told to Joe Alex Morris
  • “Here Comes the Big Top” by Frank J. Taylor

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • “Reunion With Terror” — Part 3 of 6 — by Martha Albrand and illustrated by Robert Moore
  • “Counterfeit Cavalier” — Conclusion — by Clarence Budington Kelland

    • OTHER FEATURES:

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

    • 1956-07-21 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1956/07/21 — ITEM DESCRIPTION:
    Cover design by John Falter.

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

  • “Underwater Baby” by Alex Hudson
  • “Brief Enchantment” by William Brandon and illustrated by Mortimer Wilson
  • “Love Fever” by Nancy Pope Mayorga
  • “The Hardhearted Cop” by John and Ward Hawkins and illustrated by Thornton Utz

    • 8 ARTICLES:

  • “Beware of Home-Repair Racketeers” by Stanley Frank
  • “They Bury Him Twice a Day” by Walter Wager
  • “Cities of the World: (No. 22) Hong Kong” by Demaree Bess
  • “A New Kind of Inside Story” by Genevieve Jensen
  • “Candidate Bubbling With Charm” by Joe Alex Morris is about Stu Symington
  • “Savvy Skipper of the Red Sox” by Al Hirshberg is about Mike Higgins
  • “The Face of America: Mountain Picnic” Photograph by Bill Shrout
  • “The Coming of the Space Ship” by Milton Lehman is about Rocket Scientists

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • “Escape in the Desert” — Part 1 of 6 — by Christpher Landon and illustrated by Al Muenchen
  • “Reunion With Terror” — Part 4 of 6 — by Martha Albrand and illustrated by Robert Moore

    • OTHER FEATURES:

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

    • 1956-09-22 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1956/09/22 — Cover design by Ben Prins

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

  • “Man With a Secret” by Noel Clad
  • “Killers of the Reefs” by Olaf Ruhen and illustrated by Ben Stahl
  • “Epidemic!” by Ronald Sercombe
  • “The Heart Always Knows” by Lucy Cores and illustrated by Robert Meyers

    • 8 ARTICLES:

  • I Fought All the Way: Part 2 — They Said I’d Get Murdered by Rocky Marciano as told to Al Hirshberg and Milton Gross
  • He Domineers Beautiful Women by Ernest O. Hauser is about Antoine of Paris
  • I Had a Brain Tumor by Cynthia Flannery Stine
  • Olympic Preview by H.D. Thoreau
  • The Russian to Watch by Vladimir Shabinsky with Ellsworth Raymond
  • Four-Footed Cops by J.C. Furnas
  • The Face of America: Coffee Break — Photograph by Ivan Dmitri
  • The Labrador Limited by Arthur W. Baum

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • “The Guns of Navarone — Part 1 of 8 — by Alistair MacLean and illustrated by Al Muenchen
  • “The Case of the Lucky Loser” — part 4 of 8 — a Perry Mason story by Erle Stanley Gardner

    • OTHER FEATURES:

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

    • 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”.

    1957-01-12 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1957/01/12 — Cover design by Stevan Dohanos.

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

  • “Boys Have All the Fun!” by Richard Wormser and illustrated by Arthur Lidor
  • “Bitter Parting” by Nelia Gardner White
  • “Tugboat Annie’s Reunion at Sea” by Norman Reilly Raine and illustrated by James R. Bingham
  • “Women Are Like That” by Marjorie Lederer Lee

    • 7 ARTICLES:

  • We Made the “Impossible” Tour, Part I: How We Motored Through the Jungle by Frank Schreider
  • Butch Has a Pair of New Arms by Ben Pearse
  • What We Learned About the American People by Stewart Alsop
  • Hungary’s Terrible Ordeal — Part 2 of 2 — by Judith Listowel
  • Congessions of a Choir Director by Maurice Thompson
  • The Face of America: Winter Playground — Photograph by Frank Ross
  • The Success of an Utter Failure by Hugh Morrow is about Charles M. Schultz and Peanuts

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • “Treachery at Rock Point” — Part 4 of 6 — by Peter Dawson and illustrated by Robert Meyers
  • “Rendezvous in Tokyo” — Conclusion — by John P. Marquand

    • OTHER FEATURES:

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

    • 1957-01-26 Saturday Evening Post Magazine Contents

    1957/01/26 — ITEM DESCRIPTION:
    Cover design by Amos Sewell.

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

  • “Sudden Affair” by Wallace T. Homitz and illustrated by Coby Whitmore
  • “Doctor’s Assignment” by Alan Jenkins and illustrated by Dick Stone
  • “Man-Eater” by John Benjamin George and illustrated by Harold Von Schmidt
  • “Babe and the Bully” by R. Ross Annett and illustrated by Amos Sewell

    • 8 ARTICLES:

  • Lament for a Long-Gone Past by Joseph and Stewart Alsop
  • Bonnets and Broadbrims — A Post Picture Story
  • Boxing’s Human Windmill by W.C. Heinz is about Hurricane Jackson
  • Sortie Into Suez by James P. O’Donnell
  • Can the GOP Win Without Ike? by Samuel Lubell
  • We Made the “Impossible” Tour, Part III: Island-Hopping the Spanish Main by Frank Schreider
  • The Face of America: Fisherman’s Wharf — Photograph by Fred Ragsdale
  • So You’d Like to Win a Contest! by Ronald M. Deutsch

    • 2 SERIALS:

  • “The Girl from the Mimosa Club” — Part 2 of 7 — by Leslie Ford and illustrated by Edwin Georgi
  • “Treachery at Rock Point” — Conclusion — by Peter Dawson

    • OTHER FEATURES:

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

    • Notable advertising in this issue is as follows: Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. ad illustrated by Norman Rockwell

    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

    • 1951-04-21 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

    • 1951-06-30 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

    • 1951-07-28 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.

    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

    • 1948-10-09 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
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  • Report to the Editors
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  • Verse
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  • 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”

    • 1948-10-16 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
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  • Verse
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  • Full-page black and white ad for Alfred Hitchcock ‘s Rope with a large image of Jimmy Stewart

    • 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
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  • Verse
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  • 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

    • 1948-10-30 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

    • 1948-11-20 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

    • 1948-11-27 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