| Description |
544 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Post covers -- Reprieve for Jemmy and James / Benjamin Franklin -- Apology for printers / Benjamin Franklin -- Adventure with a tar barrel / Benjamin Franklin -- The black cat / Edgar Allan Poe -- Assassination of President Lincoln / Official Gazette and Associated Press -- Good-by, Jim / James Whitcomb Riley -- The man who could not be cornered / George Horace Lorimer -- The sergeant's private madhouse / Stephen Crane -- Carrie Nation and Kansas / William Allen White -- The passing of "third floor back" / Jerome K. Jerome -- The ransom of Red Chief / O. Henry -- The great pancake record / Owen Johnson -- The nickelodeons / Joseph Medill Patterson -- The mishaps of Gentle Jane / Carolyn Wells -- The hard-rock man / Fred R. Bechdolt -- Sad days at Old Siwash / George Fitch -- A piece of steak / Jack London -- The bolt from the blue / G.K. Chesterton -- The first birdman / J.W. Mitchell -- Words and music / Irvin S. Cobb -- Alibi Ike / Ring W. Lardner -- Consider the lizard / Eugene Manlove Rhodes -- Who's who-- and why? -- Post ads -- A little town called Montignies St. Christophe / Irvin S. Cobb -- In Alsace / Edith Wharton -- Turn about / William Faulkner -- A victory dance / Alfred Noyes -- Pershing at the front / Arthur Guiterman -- "Speaking of operations--" / Irvin S. Cobb -- Scattergood Baines, invader / Clarence Budington Kelland -- Beyond the bridge / Joseph Hergesheimer -- Tutt and Mr. Tutt : in witness whereof / Arthur Train -- Tact / Thomas Beer -- Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Florida loafing / Kenneth Roberts -- Three poems / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- The terrible shyness of Orvie Stone / Booth Tarkington -- Tugboat Annie / Norman Reilly Raine -- Room to breathe in / Dorothy Thompson -- Everybody out / George S. Brooks -- Wildfire / Elsie Singmaster -- Lightning never strikes twice / Mary Roberts Rinehart -- The devil and Daniel Webster / Stephen Vincent Benét -- Money / Gertrude Stein -- Hundred-tongued Charley, the great silent orator / Alva Johnston -- Dygartsbush / Walter D. Edmonds -- Pull, pull together / J.P. Marquand -- The child by tiger / Thomas Wolfe -- The hunting of the haggis / Guy Gilpatric -- Poems / Ogden Nash -- My father was the most wretchedly unhappy man I ever knew / Gene A. Howe -- The atom gives up / William L. Laurence -- City in prison / Joseph Alsop -- How the British sank the Scharnhorst / C.S. Forester -- The immortal Harpy / Hobert Douglas Skidmore -- Solid citizen / Pete Martin -- The last night / Storm Jameson -- A few kind words for Uncle Sam / Bernard M. Baruch -- Vermont praise / Robert P. Tristram Coffin -- Is there a life after forty? / Robert M. Yoder -- Note on Danger B / Gerald Kersh -- The murderer / Joel Townsley Rogers -- The colonel saved the day / Harold H. Martin -- Old Ironpuss / Arthur Gordon -- A ballad of anthologists / Phyllis McGinley -- The ordeal of Judge Medina / Jack Alexander -- Death of M-24 / John Bartlow Martin -- The secret ingredient / Paul Gallico -- I grew up with Eisenhower / R.G. Tonkin, as told to Charles Ramsdell -- The devil in the desert / Paul Horgan. |
| Summary |
"With two 32-page portfolios; one of classic cover paintings; the other of memorable advertisements." |
| Subject |
Saturday evening post.
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American literature -- 20th century.
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United States -- Civilization -- 20th century -- Literary collections.
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| Added Author |
Butterfield, Roger, 1907-1981, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Saturday evening post. Saturday evening post treasury. New York, Simon and Schuster [1954] (OCoLC)571079277 |
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