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Nov 1, 2026
Jack BennyHOST
Let me get into that chair.
Mary LivingstonVOICE_ACTOR
Say, Jack, I received an advance copy of the Saturday Evening Post, and there's a big article in it about you.
Jack BennyHOST
There is? Let me see it.
Mary LivingstonVOICE_ACTOR
Here you are.
Noel BrownHOST
And it did turn some heads over in the States.
Noel BrownHOST
On July 1945, there was a piece that ran in the Saturday Evening Post, and there's a lovely quote that summed up the whole thing, I think, remarkably well.
Noel BrownHOST
It was from Lee himself, the American tank commander.
Noel BrownHOST
And he referred to it as being, quote, just the damnedest thing.
RalphHOST
Let's talk Lucius Curtis.
RalphHOST
owner of Curtis Publishing Company, the machine behind the Saturday Evening Post and Ladies Home Journal.
RalphHOST
Those magazines were everywhere, and they were full of stuff like 10 ways to host a safe Halloween party, how to keep mischief out of your neighborhood, why your kids shouldn't celebrate the devil.
RalphHOST
But Kurtz wasn't just a publisher.
Samantha BarbasGUEST
And, you know, so to get them on board, I think Brennan did create a position that was a bit of a compromise.
Steve HermanHOST
So the Supreme Court a few years later takes up a couple of other interesting cases that There was a famous magazine at the time, the Saturday Evening Post, and it accuses the athletic director at the University of Georgia of fixing a football game.
Steve HermanHOST
And then there's a case involving the Associated Press which, full disclosure, I worked for for a number of years, and it reported that a former army general had led a charge against federal marshals during the 1962 riot at the University of Mississippi.
Steve HermanHOST
Now, Neither of those plaintiffs were government officials, but why did the court decide that well-known public figures, as they are called, should also be playing by similar roles as government officials?
Rick LawrenceNARRATOR
The intrusion of technology has long been a concern for handwriting sticklers.
Rick LawrenceNARRATOR
In 1955, the Saturday Evening Post blamed the "...increasing reliance on the telephone, typewriter, dictating machines, and electronic brains." for turning America into a nation of scrawlers.
Rick LawrenceNARRATOR
The 2010s nevertheless marked a turning point Common core national standards removed the recommendation for cursive in favor of keyboarding.
Rick LawrenceNARRATOR
Many states took the opportunity to free up curricula for other priorities, effectively limiting print instruction to kindergarten and first grade.
Jessica AlsmanNARRATOR
And now, here he is.
Brandon PetersHOST
Happy Halloween from the Brandon Peters Show for this special spooky season, TM edition, as we discuss Trick or Treat with Reed Richmond, which of course means I'm joined by, for now, the Saturday evening post writer and Marvel Comics for Dummies author, and he's probably got as many credits to list as Reed Richmond, Troy Brownfield.
Troy BrownfieldGUEST
Thank you, Brandon.
Troy BrownfieldGUEST
I appreciate that.
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Troy BrownfieldGUEST
And then a couple of these stories that I was talking about are going to be in the next one.
Troy BrownfieldGUEST
So, uh, spoilers, but, um, No, as far as that goes...
Troy BrownfieldGUEST
No, like Brandon said, and I've still got stuff happening on the... saturday evening post and fact on uh this will air after that but wednesday the 21st of october i had a story drop on uh kind of a opinion column flipping the script on the idea of the networks and everything i've always tried to push horror movies only to october and i'm proposing the
Brandon PetersHOST
only time of year you can watch them
KevinHOST
The police had watched the place around the clock since early September.
KevinHOST
According to the Saturday Evening Post's 1960 account of the case, police had already examined the dresser and found no envelope.
KevinHOST
But when she went through a bureau drawer, she found four manila envelopes.
KevinHOST
According to the New York Sun, the envelopes held his will, checks, and about $6,600 in cash.
11 MINS LATER
KevinHOST
That is the entire documented overlap.
KevinHOST
Police said they were looking into it and did not reach a conclusion.
KevinHOST
The Saturday Evening Post write-up says nothing conclusive has been reported.
KevinHOST
The Daily News retrospective says nothing has been found.
Todd James PierceHOST
The third large film project he developed during this period was The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit.
Todd James PierceHOST
The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit, a story about a set of stylish clothes that magically changes the fortune of each person who wears them, started as a short story that Bradbury published under a slightly different title in the Saturday Evening Post back in 1958.
Todd James PierceHOST
From there, in the mid-1960s, Bradbury adapted it into a stage play.
Todd James PierceHOST
During that first run, Roy E. Disney saw it performed twice and was impressed by it.
Molly AshfordHOST
On this day in 1878, editorial cartoonist Herbert Johnson was born in Sutton, Nebraska.
Molly AshfordHOST
He spent decades as a prominent political cartoonist, primarily with the Saturday Evening Post in Denver.
Molly AshfordHOST
Many of his cartoons were highly critical of government spending and President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Great New Deal policies.
Molly AshfordHOST
The news is next.
speaker_2SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And according to Valfierno, the only purpose in stealing the Mona Lisa was in creating international headlines, which he did.
JoeNARRATOR
The origin of the story was an article published 20 years after the theft in the Saturday Evening Post.
JoeNARRATOR
It was written by an American journalist named Carl Decker.
JoeNARRATOR
Decker got his training as a newspaper man under William Randolph Hearst.
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