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The Saturday Evening Post [v222 #22, November 26, 1949] (15¢, 10½" x 13½", cover by Stevan Dohanos) Information from EBAY auction. · Challenge the Tempest · Jacland Marmur · ss · The Camouflaged Crime · Dale Curran · ss · One Divorce Is Enough · Norman Katkov · ss · The Odds on Murder · William MacHarg · ss · My Wonderful Uncle Levi · Franklin F. Gould · ss · My Three Years in Moscow: Why The Russian People Don’t Rebel · Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith · ar · He Refused to Be Smeared by Pearson · Kenneth G. Crawford · ar · The Red Rape of Albania · Ernest O. Hauser · ar · The Ballyhoo Boys of Football · Al Stump · ar · They’re Training a New Kind of Parson · Hartzell Spence · ar · It’s a Great Place for Birds · Misc. · ar · The Doctor of Unknown Island [Part 4 of 4] · David Divine · sl · The Innocent Buccaneer [Part 3 of 8] · Clarence Budington Kelland · sl
The Saturday Evening Post [December 3, 1949] (180pp, 10½" x 13½", cover by John Falter) Information from EBAY auction. · It’s Me Darling—Your Husband! · Michael Fessier · ss · Espionage Express · Robinson MacLean · ss · With Half Her Heart · Michael Foster · ss · Touchdown Crazy · William Fay · ss · A Thousand Miles an Hour · Walt Grove · ss · Vengeance Valley [Part 1 of 7] · Luke Short · sl · The Innocent Buccaneer [Part 4 of 8] · Clarence Budington Kelland · sl · I Fell for the Foot Lights · William Hazlett Upson · ar · Their Heads Are in the Russian Bear’s Mouth · Demaree Bess · ar
The Saturday Evening Post [v222 #24, December 10, 1949] (15¢, 10½" x 13½") Information from EBAY auction. 20 · Spies Are Shot at Dawn · Sigman Byrd · ss 24 · Amateur Angel · Cecily Teague Crowe · ss 31 · The Christmas Racket · Jim & Allan Bosworth · ss 34 · The Uncertain Heiress · Isak Dinesen · ss 40 · Vengeance Valley [Part 2 of 7] · Luke Short · sl 45 · The Innocent Buccaneer [Part 5 of 8] · Clarence Budington Kelland · sl
The Saturday Evening Post [v222 #25, December 17, 1949] (15¢, 10½" x 13½", cover by John Clymer) [MW2] 17 · Our Youngsters Don’t Have to Be Killers · Sidney Shalett & Henry C. McFadyen · ar 20 · Pilgrims of the Storm · Eddy Orcutt · ss 22 · Dick Tracy’s Boss · Robert M. Yoder · ar 24 · How to Get Married · Steve McNeil · ss 25 · Let’s Give Pop a Wooden Leg · Henry F. & Katharine Pringle · ar 26 · My Three Years in Moscow: What Really Happened at the Moscow Conference [Part 2 of 8] · Lt. Gen Walter Bedell Smith · ar 28 · Intruders for Tea · Gerald Kersh · ss 30 · Britain’s Star Huckster Tackles Our Market · O. Henry Brandon · ar 31 · The River of Fear · Naomi Lane Babson · ss 32 · Beautiful Nuisance · Misc. · pi; (photos of snowy barns). 34 · Dangerous Game · Daniel P. Mannix · ar 36 · Vengeance Valley [Part 3 of 7] · Luke Short · sl 41 · The Mystery of the Deadly Dust · Milton Silverman · ar 42 · The Innocent Buccaneer [Part 6 of 8] · Clarence Budington Kelland · sl
The Saturday Evening Post [v222 #26, December 24, 1949] (15¢, 10½" x 13½", cover by Hughes) Information from EBAY auction. · Why Should I Cry? · I. A. R. Wylie · ss · Arrogant Male · Richard Stern · ss · The Outer Limit · Graham Doar · ss · The Thieves of Christmas Eve · William Fay · ss · Some Cops Have Lovely Legs · Stanley Frank · ss · The World’s Most Famous Church · Ernest O. Hauser · ar · Nitwit in Feathers · Arthur Trevenning Harris · ar · My Three Years in Moscow: The Story Behind the Berlin Blockade · Walter Bedell Smith · ar · Mr. Truman’s Mystery Man · Alfred Steinberg · ar · The Cities of America: Balboa · Sidney Shalett · ar · What I Don’t Like About Hotels · Robert M. Yoder · ar · They’re Just Wild About Sports · Arthur Bartlett · ar · Vengeance Valley [Part 4 of 7] · Luke Short · sl · The Innocent Buccaneer [Part 7 of 8] · Clarence Budington Kelland · sl
The Saturday Evening Post [December 31, 1949] (15¢, 10½" x 13½", cover by Alajalov) Information from EBAY auction. · Stand By to Abandon · Jacland Marmur · ss · The Woman in the Woods · David Lamson · ss · Night of Champions · Peggy Simson Curry · ss · Danger High Tension · Bill Gulick · ss · Candidate Truman’s Magic Brew · Joseph & Stewart Alsop · ar · Twenty Million Dollar Valley · John Burgan · ar · What’s the Matter with Our High Schools · Frances V. Rummell · ar · I Lived with the Chinese Pirates · Darrell Berrigan · ar · Hurry Doc I Just Sneezed · Ralph Knight · ar · Farewell Jackass · Harold H. Martin · ar · My Three Years in Moscow · Walter Bedell Smith · ar · Vengeance Valley [Part 5 of 7] · Luke Short · sl · The Innocent Buccaneer [Part 8 of 8] · Clarence Budington Kelland · sl
The Saturday Evening Post [v222 #28, January 7, 1950] (15¢, 100pp, 10½" x 13½", cover by John Falter) [MO] 13 · The Corpse in the Sea [Part 1 of 8] · Max Murray · sl; illus. Richard Hook 16 · Why We Lost China: The Feud Between Stilwell and Chiang · Joseph Alsop · ar 18 · The Fabulous Cabman · MacKinlay Kantor · ss; illus. Ben Prins 20 · Look Out, Here Comes an Avalanche! · Harold Titus · ar 22 · Hurricane Force · William Ashley Anderson · ss; illus. Richard Lyon 23 · How You Can Survive an A-Bomb Blast · Richard Gerstell · ar 24 · Party Girl in Paradise · Martha Gellhorn · ar; Perle Mesta. 26 · There’s More to Crabbing Than You Think · Samuel Hopkins Adams · ar 28 · Wisconsin’s Mysterious Diamond Hoard · Neil M. Clark · ar 29 · Wildfire · Mackenzie Cottrell · ss; illus. Ken Riley 30 · What We Think of Senator Byrd’s Machine · Virginius Dabney · ar 32 · That Heartless Young Thing · Irene & Louis Kemp · ss; illus. Gilbert Bundy 34 · Maybe It’s Mice · Ethel Jacobson · pm 34 · The Strange Case of the Cautious Motorist · Ogden Nash · pm 34 · Note to Across-the-Room Conversationalists · Richard Armour · pm 36 · Vengeance Valley [Part 6 of 7] · Luke Short · sl; illus. Fred Ludekens 38 · Formula for Peace · Robert P. Tristram Coffin · pm 57 · Note to Husbandmen · R. H. Grenville · pm 66 · Unbroken Melody · Norman R. Jaffray · pm 68 · Put It This Way · Franklin P. Jones · ms 74 · R.S.V.P. · Robert G. Peck, Jr. · pm 86 · Ridge Wind · Herbert Merrill · pm 90 · Sixth Period · Irene Carlisle · pm 97 · Cure · Richard Armour · pm 100 · Keeping Posted · Anon. · ms; short notes on contributors; photos of Samuel Hopkins Adams / Dorothy Cottrell / Mackenzie Cottrell.
The Saturday Evening Post [v222 #29, January 14, 1950] (15¢, 116pp, 10½" x 13½", cover by ?) [MO] 17 · Miracle Under the Arctic Sea · Comdr. W. J. Lederer, U.S.N. · ar 20 · The Frozen Jungle · Colin Lofting · ss; illus. Mead Schaeffer 22 · That Man Cooper · Pete Martin · ar; about Gary Cooper. 24 · Swing High · Robb White · ss; illus. George Garland 25 · The City That Wouldn’t Die · Joseph Wechsberg · ar; Warsaw. 26 · Why We Lost China: We Opened the Door for the Communists · Joseph Alsop · ar 28 · Sweet and Ruthless · Margaret Craven · ss; illus. Edwin Georgi 30 · Just Leave Us Alone · Hodding Carter · ar 31 · Stranded in the Sky · Thomas M. Runyon · ss; illus. Geoffrey Biggs 32 · Lunch Hour · Tom Henderson · ct 34 · The Cities of America: Flagstaff, Arizona · Edgar Snow · ar 36 · The Corpse in the Sea [Part 2 of 8] · Max Murray · sl; illus. Richard Hook 38 · Old Custom · Philip Lazarus · pm 38 · No Comment · Parke Cummings · pm 38 · Mrs. Knittle Testifies Yet · W. F. Miksch · ms 38 · The Strategic Female · Robert Fontaine · ms 38 · On Borrowed Time · Richard Armour · pm 40 · Vengeance Valley [Part 7 of 7] · Luke Short · sl; illus. Fred Ludekens 62 · Fourteen · Georgie Starbuck Galbraith · pm 66 · Diesels’ Lament · Frances Bragan Richman · pm 84 · Winter Housing Project · Eleanor Halbrook Zimmerman · pm 94 · Unhurried Transient · Murray Hamner · pm 99 · Strange Relations · William S. Corwen · pm 106 · To a Wintering Bumblebee · Bettie Cassie Lidell · pm 116 · Keeping Posted · Misc. · ms; photo of William J. Lederer.
The Saturday Evening Post [v222 #30, January 21, 1950] (15¢, 116pp, 10½" x 13½", cover by ?) As possible perspective on Iraq today, the answer to the question on page 28, 4 1/2 years after the war, was “very few.” [MO] 17 · The White Invader [Part 1 of 3] · James Warner Bellah · sl; western.; illus. Harold Von Schmidt 20 · The Post Reports on Divorce · David G. Wittels · ar 22 · Snowmaiden · William L. Worden · ss; illus. Coby Whitmore 24 · I Get ’Em When They’re Broke · Irwin Kurtz, as told to Hal Burton · ar 26 · Panic Over the Atlantic · David Walker · ss; illus. Bernard D’Andrea 27 · He Wants to Keep Washington Honest · Hugh Morrow · ar; about William P. Rogers. 28 · How Many Germans Are Buying Democracy? · James P. O’Donnell · ar 30 · Why We Lost China: The Foredoomed Mission of General Marshall · Joseph Alsop · ar 31 · The Witness Who Wouldn’t Talk · Harry Klingsberg · ss; illus. Perry Peterson 32 · Men at Work: Baptist Minister · Richard Thruelsen · ar; about Rev. George Moody. 34 · Substitute Parent · Leon Ware · ss; illus. Richard Hook 36 · You Can’t Kill a Hockey Player · Trent Frayne · ar; about Elmer Lach. 38 · Ware the H? · R. A. Crabtree · pm 38 · Premed Exam · W. F. Miksch · ms 38 · Should Old Acquaintance— · John McGiffert · pm 38 · Fit to be Tied · Stephen Schlitzer · pm 38 · Who Wears What Pants in Whose House? · Robert Fontaine · ms 41 · The Corpse in the Sea [Part 3 of 8] · Max Murray · sl; illus. Richard Hook 43 · Mending Days · Herbert Merrill · pm 48 · Black Canyon (Gunnison River) · Helen Rowe Henze · pm 84 · There’s No Place Like a Fireplace · Richard Armour · pm 88 · Purely Personal · Berton Braley · pm 95 · Loyalty · Harry Lazarus · pm 100 · Escapist · R. H. Grenville · pm 104 · As Easy As A, B, Z · Robert G. Peck, Jr. · pm 116 · Keeping Posted · Misc. · ms; photos of David Walker, James O’Donnell, Trent Frayne.
The Saturday Evening Post [v222 #31, January 28, 1950] (15¢, 120pp, 10½" x 13½", cover by George Hughes) [MO] 17 · The Highest-Paid Spy in History · Robert M. W. Kempner · ar 20 · The Wife Deceiver · Stuart Cloete · ss; illus. Gilbert Bundy 22 · The Post Reports on Divorce: Why Parents Call It Quits · David G. Wittels · ar 24 · The Phantom Flivver · Frank Luther Mott · ss; ghost story; update of “Peter Rugg, the Missing Man,” even to name.; illus. Richard Hook 25 · Nevada’s Fantastic Snow Man · Roger Butterfield · ar; about James Edward Church. 26 · The British Think It’s Funny · Ernest O. Hauser · ar; about Punch. 28 · Onslaught of Terror · Harold Lamb · ss; illus. Fred Ludekens 30 · What You Should Know About your Kidneys · Greer Williams · ar 31 · Forbidden Marriage · William Ashley Anderson · ss; illus. Roy Price 32 · Just Like a Movie · H. Allen Smith · ar 34 · The White Invader [Part 2 of 3] · James Warner Bellah · sl; illus. Harold Von Schmidt 36 · Admirals to Bellhops - They Outfit ’Em All · Ashley Halsey, Jr. · ar 38 · Reasonable Facsimile · Richard Armour · pm 38 · Coming Events for One and all · Dick Ashbaugh · ms 38 · Compulsory Course · Ethel M. Wegert · pm 38 · Snowstorm · Frank R. Canning · pm 38 · A Nice cold glass of Water · Robert Fontiane · ms 38 · Frozen assets · John McGiffert · pm 40 · The Corpse in the Sea [Part 4 of 8] · Max Murray · sl; illus. Richard Hook 49 · Bones in Midwinter · Ethel Barnett de Vito · pm 56 · Let Down · Harry Lazarus · pm 72 · Conversation Piece · Richard Armour · pm 86 · Mea Culpa · Eleanor Halbrook Zimmerman · pm 91 · Clothes Hanger · Stephen Schlitzer · pm 108 · Outdoor Dog · Elizabeth Landeweer · pm 112 · Country Roads · Marie Nettleton Carroll · pm 120 · Keeping Posted · Misc. · ms; photos of Richard Armour, Frank Luther Mott.
The Saturday Evening Post [v222 #32, February 4, 1950] (15¢, 100pp, 10½" x 13½", cover by Thornton Utz) [MO] 17 · The Reds are Rapping at Our Arctic Door · Sally Carrighar · ar 20 · The Unapproachable Woman · Hugh B. Cave · ss; illus. R. G. Harris 22 · Madness on Skates · John Kobler · ar 24 · Hoodoo Passage · Jacland Marmur · ss; illus. Ray Prohaska 25 · You’ll Never Make Them Loyal That Way · Marian D. Irish · ar 26 · Bats are My Best Friends · Ernest P. Walker · ar 28 · I Make a Living Doing What I Like · David M. Newell · ar 29 · My Love Is No Lady · John Reese · ss; illus. George Englert 30 · The Cities of America: El Paso Texas · George Sessions Perry · ar 32 · Cables Parting · Steve Hail · ss; illus. Peter Helck 34 · The Post Reports on Divorce: Is Infidelity Forgivable? · David G. Wittels · ar 36 · The White Invader [Part 3 of 3] · James Warner Bellah · sl; illus. Harold Von Schmidt 38 · Property Line · Frank R. Canning · pm 38 · If You Wanna Know, Ask! · Robert Fontaine · ms 38 · That Explains It · Stephen Schlitzer · pm 38 · Complete Coverage · Norman R. Jaffray · pm 40 · The Corpse in the Sea [Part 5 of 8] · Max Murray · sl; illus. Richard Hook 48 · At Winter Duck · Eleanor Halbrook Zimmerman · pm 56 · Footnote to a Husband · Ruth W. Driver · pm 60 · Intuition · Vesta Nickerson Lukie · pm 66 · She Wrote I Would Not Know Her · Margery Mansfield · pm 80 · Song for a Pantry · Elaine V. Emans · pm 111 · Keeping Posted · Misc. · ms; photo of Sally Carrighar.
The Saturday Evening Post [v222 #33, February 11, 1950] (15¢, 132pp, 10½" x 13½", cover by John Falter) [MO] 17 · Calling the Southern Cross! [Part 1 of 8] · Hammond Innes · sl; illus. Ben Prins 20 · They Swindle Death Every Day · Robert M. Yoder · ar 22 · Tugboat Annie Opens Fire [Tugboat Annie] · Norman Reilly Raine · ss; illus. Harold Von Schmidt 24 · Five Hundred Miles from Nowhere · Robert Murphy · pm 26 · Female Shortage · Victoria Case · ss; western.; illus. Ken Riley 27 · Why New York? · Wesley W. Stout · ar 28 · Washington’s Flossiest Hotel · Sidney Shalett · ar 30 · How Our Commies Defame America Abroad · Vic Reinemer · ar 31 · Emergency Landing · Peter Dollar · ss; illus. Geoffrey Biggs 32 · The Post Reports on Divorce: The Children Are the Losers · David G. Wittels · ar 34 · The Rider on the Pale Horse · Helen Eustis · ss; western.; illus. Joe de Mers 36 · West Point, Jr. · Harold H. Martin · ar; Culver Military Academy. 38 · Reverie at Reveille · William W. Pratt · pm 38 · Note Change of Address · Caskie Stinnett · ms 38 · To My Valentine · Marian P. Fickes · pm 38 · What Ever Happened to “Plop!"? · Edward J. Riebe · ms 38 · Weighty Matter · Philip Lazarus · pm 40 · The Permanent, The Haircut · M. Blanchard & Tom Henderson · ct 43 · The Corpse in the Sea [Part 6 of 8] · Max Murray · sl; illus. Richard Hook 47 · God-Fearing Mrs. Bates · Abigail Cresson · pm 77 · Anniversary Sonnet · Cosette Middleton · pm 88 · King-Sized Husband · Georgie Starbuck Galbraith · pm 93 · Incommunicado · Robert G. Peck, Jr. · pm 100 · Spanking Problem · Dorothy Faubion · pm 114 · Brief Valentine · Virginia Scott Miner · pm 125 · February Sun · Herbert Merrill · pm 132 · Keeping Posted · Misc. · ms; photos of Alajalov, Helen Eustis.
The Saturday Evening Post [v222 #34, February 18, 1950] (15¢, 140pp, 10½" x 13½", cover by Jack Welch) [MO] 17 · Millionaires’ Town · Harold H. Martin · ar; about Ozona, Texas. 20 · The Big Bluff · Bennett Foster · ss; western.; illus. Donald Teague 22 · Europe’s Old Nightmare Returns · Demaree Bess · ar 24 · The Ardent Woodsman · Hugh B. Cave · ss; illus. Gilbert Bundy 25 · You’re Not Very Smart After All · John Kobler · ar; computers. 26 · He Wants to Make Something of Arkansas · Joe Alex Morris · ar; Gov. Sid McMath. 28 · The Post Reports on Divorce: Perjury Unlimited · David G. Wittels · ar 29 · Bait for a Cop · Norman Katkov · ss; illus. Larry Kritcher 30 · Who Climbed Mount McKinley? · Numa F. Vidal · ar 32 · No Room in Her Heart · Roderick Lull · ss; illus. Ray Prohaska 34 · High Life in the Rockies · Leigh White · ar 36 · The Students Strike Back at Stalin · Ernest Leiser · ar 38 · Calling the Southern Cross! [Part 2 of 8] · Hammond Innes · sl; illus. Ben Prins 40 · Fizzling Platter · Richard Armour · pm 40 · I Wish You Could Have been There · Loyd Rosenfield · pm 40 · Hold Onto your Wallet · Parke Cummings · ms 40 · Homo Sapiens, 1950 · R. A. Crabtree · pm 43 · The Corpse in the Sea [Part 7 of 8] · Max Murray · sl; illus. Richard Hook 84 · High-School Freshman · Alice Martin Lester · pm 103 · Hale Male · Harry Lazarus · pm 108 · Boy Gone Away · Louise Owen · pm 118 · Carolina Winter · Harriet Gray Blackwell · pm 124 · Two-o’Clock Cowardice · Norman R. Jaffray · pm 130 · By Request · Richard Armour · pm 134 · Night Voice · Eleanor Halbrook Zimmerman · pm 140 · Keeping Posted · Misc. · ms; photos of Numa Vidal, Leigh White, Richard White.

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