Saturday Evening POST
ISSUE DATE:
May 9 1964; 237th Year, Issue No 18, 5/9/64
Own a piece of history, fascinating to read! The POST is famous for its great illustrators (on the cover and inside!) -- each issue also features articles, stories by famous authors, photographs, and great vintage advertisements! -- Exclusive MORE MAGAZINES detailed content description, below! * MORE Saturday Evening Posts HERE! IN THIS ISSUE:- [Detailed contents description written EXCLUSIVELY for this listing by MORE MAGAZINES! Use 'Control F' to search this page.] * This description copyright MOREMAGAZINES. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 THE COVER: JILL ST. JOHN: An Actress in search of her childhood. The big girl who refuses to grow up, JILL ST. JOHN, was photographed by Frank Bez. ARTICLES: Hollywood's carefree child by Richard Warren Lewis. "She's been married twice and earns $100,000 a year playing sexy roles, but JILL ST. JOHN still plays with Teddy Bears and toy trains." [Article/Profile of the actress, with nice photos.] They can't cover up for Bobby Baker (Speaking Out) by Sen. Hugh Scott. Affairs of state by Stewart Alsop. Crime in Moscow by George Feifer. Illustrated by Des Asmussen. What are they doing with Gen. Sheridan's horse? by Anne Chamberlin. A new life for a blind deer by Georges Carousso. Monorail: A one-track controversy by Joseph N. Bell. George Wallace shakes up the political scene by Harold H. Martin. Cancer is yielding up its secrets. . . . by Pat McGrady and Murray Morgan. Science is making steady progress In forcing cancer to yield its secrets. Re- searchers are increasingly certain that viruses are the main cause of the disease and this means that a vaccine may be the answer. This two-part article was written by Pat McGrady, and Murray Morgan, a free-lance writer. Much of the material was taken from McGrady's forthcoming book. The Savage Cell, which the author wrote while on leave of absence from his job as science editor of the American Cancer Society. In this issue the authors describe the evidence that points to cancer viruses; next week, in Part II, they examine the massive re- search to find a chemical cure. No breakthrough can come soon enough for the one In four Americans now alive who will suffer from some form of cancer. How a stricken state met chaos by Bard Lindeman. FICTION: A property, of hope by Fred Chappell. Illustrated by Karen Rosen. The effect of Barney Fuller by Anthony Bailey. Illustrated by Diane and Leo Dillon. DEPARTMENTS:Letters; Post Scripts; Hazel; Editorials. THE AUTHORS. In Alaska to cover the great quake, Bard Lindeman lived through a severe aftershock. He says, "I thought I was going to write about quakes, not run from them." He describes the brave Alaskan effort to rebuild. . .. Richard Warren Lewis sent Jill St. John a long-playing record of steam-locomotive sound effects. The choo-choo noises were for her model trains . . . . George Feifer studied Russian at the Navy Language School, then went to Moscow under the cultural-exchange program. To study Soviet justice firsthand, he says, he just walked into a courthouse and sat down. Feifer watched a variety of cases. He saw Russian citizens tried for crimes ranging from thievery to attempted rape and murder. . . . Anne Chamberlin says she warmed to the Smithsonian's new home: It looked to her like a perfect place for her old car, but she then just couldn't convince the curators . . . Georges Carousso, who has published 17 short stories in The Post, is public-relations director of the brewery that flew the blind deer to a specially trained veterinarian for eye surgery. He gave up a deer-hunting trip to help Bambi . . . Joseph Bell lives 15 minutes from Disneyland. He rides the monorail there to entertain his children, but the ride in Seattle was strictly for business . . . . After following Governor Wallace along the northern primary trail, fellow Southerner Harold H. Martin has one explanation for the governor's unexpected success: 'Ultraconservatives may think he represents a respectable way to oppose Big Government." FULL PAGE vintage ADS include: James Hill portrait of Edgar Allen Poe for John Hancock; TAB; BUICK LeSabre white convertible; PEPSI; PONTIAC Tempest (red); MORE * NOTE: OUR content description is GUARANTEED accurate for THIS magazine. Editions are not always the same, even with the same title, cover and issue date. This description copyright MOREMAGAZINES. 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Oversized magazine, Approx 10" X 13". COMPLETE and in VERY GOOD condition. (See photo)
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