The American Legion Monthly [Volume 19, No. 2 (August 1935)]
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Cover Design: The Family by Paul Bransom -- "I'll Soon be Forty-one" by John Black, Drawing by Grattan Condon -- Track Slow: It's Always Fair Weather When Good Ponies Get Together, Even If They Just Walk by William A. Erskine, Illustrations by Paul Brown -- That Next "Last War" by Wythe Williams, Cartography by William Heaslip -- The Soul of Our Democracy by Irving Bacheller, Drawings by Harry Townsend -- A Career on the Seven Seas by Willard Cooper -- Murder in Sunlight: Conclusion by Karl Detzer, Illustrations by J.W. Schlaikjer -- The Doctor Follows the Flag by Robert U. Patterson -- The Strangest Post in the World by Sam H. Jones, Illustrations by L.R. Gustavson -- Forever North, Forever South by Joseph Mills Hanson -- Editorial: Battle Summer -- Summer Afternoon by Wallgren -- Bursts and Duds Conducted by Dan Sowers -- The Known Soldier: You may have lost your discharge papers and everything else relating to your wartime service, but Uncle Sam's got your number, neatly filed away at Washington in those ten fingerprints you gave him when you joined up. And not a day passes without his making valuable use of this marvelous collection by Fairfax Downey -- Faster Yet, Farther Still: The four-minute mile run, the fifteen-foot pole vault and the seven-foot high jump sound fantastic today, but don't bet they won't become realities within a generation. The world's records in the first two aren't so far behind right now by Alexander Gardiner -- Few Dollars, Many Bricks by Philip Von Blon -- Hostess to the Signal Corps by John J. Noll -- The Voice of the Legion: Non-Citizens Swelling American Relief Rolls, Smoky Joe and Backbone, and Willing Horses That Carry the Load Engage Editors Attention -- News of Veteran Interest