The Saturday Evening Post Magazine August 17 1940 Limbs is a Flourish Word

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Note: The content list below is digitally transcribed for searchability. Please refer to the photos for the exact Table of Contents.

Inside This Issue (Full Table of Contents):

• Short Stories
  • Leave It to Ames — Walter D. Edmonds
    • Ames rescues a damsel in distress.
  • Thunder at Night — Steve Fisher
    • A sea drama the Graf Spee might have written.
  • Limbs Is a Flourish Word — Lucretia Perry
    • A rural historian brings tomorrow’s happiness out of the past.
  • Every Night a Bank Night — Joel Sayre
    • Rookie Officer McClatchin learns how to maintain law and disorder.
• Articles
  • Adventures of a White-Collar Man — Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., in collaboration with Boyden Sparkes
    • Forty-five years of adventuring in big and little business.
  • The Tall, Straight Spars — Capt. D’Arcy Grant
    • This young lady wanted to go to sea—and did.
  • Pittsburgh Phil — As told to Clem McCarthy by James C. McGill
    • Concluding the saga of Pittsburgh Phil, who beat the races.
  • Dunkirk Diary — Taffrail
    • How England accomplished the greatest retreat in history.
• Serials
  • Dust in the Afternoon (Second part of four) — Holmes Alexander
    • A busher learns why the big leagues are big.
  • House of Cards (Conclusion) — Clarence Budington Kelland
    • Who killed who and why—plus two heart attacks.
• Other Features
  • Next Week
  • Keeping Posted
  • Editorials
  • Post Scripts
  • Poems
    • Fog — Edith Cherrington
    • Two Trees — Helen Howland Prommel