MURPHY, ROBERT; FORKENBROCK, B.; SHELDON, GEORGE C.; WATKINS, RICHARD HOWELLS; MUIR, FLORABEL; BAYLES, WILLIAM D.; BAUM, ARTHUR W.; FRANK, JEROME; GOEBEL, MARGARET CALLAM; WILSON, EARL; COGGSWELL, JOHN F.; KANTOR, MACKINLAY; FORD, LESLIE
The Saturday Evening Post, November [Nov. ] 28, 1942 - Glamour Girls in the Desert / the Earl of Suffolk Vol. 215, No. 22
Philadelphia: The Curtis Publishing Company, 1942. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Illustrated by Rockwell, Norman. Norman Rockwell cover illustration entitled "The Army Cook" depicts a cook with the 71st Brigade at Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont, who has just prepared a holiday feast for 137 hungry soldiers. This was a rare instance when a Rockwell cover corresponded with an article in the magazine. Features: Desert Battalion - An Army oasis of USO glamour girls invades Palm Springs, with great color photos; The Incredible Earl of Suffolk aka Charles Henry George ("Wild Jack") Howard, twentieth Earl of Suffolk - He lived and died for England (first of two articles); Memphis Yankee - Cotton pickery president Bill Robinson of McCallum and Robinson, Inc. in Tennessee; What's Wrong with our Patent System? - Jerome Frank proposes a plan - patent applied for; I Cheer the Referee - a football referee's wife boos the 60,000 who boo him; Woes of an Army Cook - but Army chow is better these days; Home Front gets Action - Cape Cod's civilian defense faces a real war test - with many color photos. Stories: Courage; Home is a Place; I Should Listen to Mabel!; Second Fiddle; Happy Land; Siren in the Night (part 2 of 6). Nice color-illustrated one-page White Truck ad shows linemen at work in winter storm. One-page B.F. Goodrich ad features photo of construction of the Inter-American Highway. 100 pages. Complete and unmarked with moderate wear. 2" x 1" piece missing from back cover along coverfold. A worthy copy of this wonderful WWII-era issue.; Cover Illustration; Folio. Good .

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