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unusual facts about Saturday Evening Post



Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve

Father Bernard R. Hubbard was a Jesuit priest and professor of geology at Santa Clara University in California, who had been exploring Alaska's volcanoes and glaciers every summer season since 1927 and writing about them in best-selling books and in publications such as National Geographic and the Saturday Evening Post.

Berton Braley

He was a prolific writer, with verses in many magazines, including Coal Age, American Machinist, Nation's Business, Forbes Magazine, Harper's Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, and the Saturday Evening Post.

Carlos Bulosan

One of his most famous essays, published in March 1943, was chosen by the Saturday Evening Post to accompany its publication of the Norman Rockwell painting Freedom from Want, part of a series based on Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Four Freedoms" speech.

Festering Season

At this time he “remembered an old art history lesson about Norman Rockwell’s” early work on the Saturday Evening Post which was reproduced in two-color.

Frank Chodorov

Chodorov published articles in a variety of magazines, including H.L. Mencken's American Mercury, the Saturday Evening Post and Scribner's.

Glenn Holland

In 1953, Holland proposed Santa's Village after reading a Saturday Evening Post story about a similar project called North Pole in New York.

Harry Brinkley Bass

Bass received some notoriety for remarks he made that appeared in the Saturday Evening Post about the Prince of Wales, later Edward VIII, wearing a "sloppy" Scout uniform.

Howard Brubaker

Howard Brubaker (d. 1957) was an editor of Success and Liberator and a contributor to the New Yorker, Collier's Weekly, The New Republic, Saturday Evening Post, Country Gentleman, and many other magazines.

Jim Hendy

This reputation led him to a number of other writing posts for publications such as The New York Telegraph, Saturday Evening Post and McCall's.

Robert Quillen

Quillen wrote for such major periodicals such as the Baltimore Sun, the Saturday Evening Post, and The American Magazine, and he "took the greatest pride" in one-liners picked up by Literary Digest.

The Spreading Dawn

This film was based on a short fiction The Spreading Dawn by Basil King that first appeared in the Saturday Evening Post.

Thea Foss

The fictional character of "Tugboat Annie", which was based on the life of Foss, first appeared during the late 1920s in a series of stories in the Saturday Evening Post written by Norman Reilly Raine.

Tugboat Annie

The boisterous Tugboat Annie character first appeared in a series of stories in the Saturday Evening Post written by the author Norman Reilly Raine which were based on the life of Thea Foss of Tacoma, Washington.

Vereen Bell

Bell wrote the novel Swamp Water set in the Okefenokee Swamp, which was originally published in 1940 as a serial in the Saturday Evening Post.


see also

Anton Fischer

Anton Otto Fischer (1882–1962), illustrator for the Saturday Evening Post

Crissey

Forrest Crissey, prolific early twentieth century novelist of Tattlings of a Retired Politician and writer for the Saturday Evening Post and Harpers Magazine

Henry Shute

His stories were published extensively in The Saturday Evening Post (1925–1928), often illustrated by Leslie Turner.

John Philip Falter

Falter's first Saturday Evening Post cover, a portrait of the magazine's founder, Benjamin Franklin, is dated September 1, 1943.

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

"Comrade Laski, C.P.U.S.A. (M.-L.)"
Appeared first in 1967 in The Saturday Evening Post.