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1946-05-04 Liberty Magazine Contents May 4, 1946

1946/05/04 —
Cover “Brother and Sister Act” is by Andrew Loomis

Contents as follows:
ARTICLES:

  • Thunder Over Poland by William van Narvig
  • Warning from Wall Street by H.D. Steinmetz is about NYSE President Emil Schram
  • Fighting Fire with Fog by Paul W. Kearney
  • Idea-a-Minute Man by Joseph Wechsberg is about Charles Brackett and William Wyler with large black and white photo of the two
  • The Tuna’s a Trouble-Maker by John Scott Douglas
  • When the Japs Bombed Michigan by Jerry MacMullen

    • STORIES:

  • A Man of Peace by Peirson Ricks with large color illustration by Ernest Chiriacka
  • Callahan and the Painted Jezebel by Edwin Rutt and illustrated by Lawrence Butcher
  • Just a Yellow Belly – Short Short Story by Stanley F. Donath and illustrated by Martin Gulser
  • For the Love of Pete by James Charles Lynch with full page color illustration by Roy Besser
  • Nothing But the Truth by Samuel W. Taylor with color illustration by Percy Leason

    • PICTURES:

  • The Camera Eye

    • BOOK CONDENSATION:

  • Forever Possess by Alexandra Phillips

    • FEATURES:

  • Vox Pop
  • On the Beam
  • Books in Review
  • Crossword Puzzle
  • Veterans’ Bulletin Board
  • The Thropp Family
  • Woman-Talk
  • Liberty Goes to the Movies looks at “Gilda” starring Rita Hayworth, two-thirds of a page with two black & white photos
  • Colonel Stoopnagle’s Fictionary

    • EDITORIAL:

  • The WHY of the Housing Shortage by Paul Hunter

    • Full page color ad for The Marx Brothers in A Night in Casablanca pictures all three of the Marx Bros. under the covers in a bed ogling a woman — “Come to Bedlam! … See the Marx brothers in their 1946 Howl-Raiser”