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Jeff Nilsson

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Sep 30, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Jeff Nilsson

    Classic Cover: School Bus by Stevan Dohanos | The Saturday Evening Post (opens the original)

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    The best of The Saturday Evening Post in your inbox! The dog days are over: Another autumn, another school year. And, as Post cover artist Stevan Dohanos captures it in this cover illustration from September 2, 1944, another parting of kids and their dogs. Their long summer months of companionship are over, and the children’s pets must gaze wonderingly while they receive farewell waves. Dohanos was a master of realistically capturing scenes of everyday life in America, though the children on the

  2. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Jeff Nilsson

    To the Weekend on Its 100th Birthday | The Saturday Evening Post (opens the original)

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    The best of The Saturday Evening Post in your inbox! On September 25, 1926, Henry Ford announced his employees would now work an eight-hour day for five days a week. Ford believed workers would return from two-day weekends refreshed and ready to put their minds and hands to the job. He had also determined that the extra time off would make workers more productive. So he ended his company’s work hours on Saturday. The move had first been discussed years earlier, when Ford’s son Edsel told the New

  3. Article · Sep 16, 2026 · Jeff Nilsson

    100 Years Ago: Footloose, Flight Risk, and Horse Power | The Saturday Evening Post (opens the original)

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    The best of The Saturday Evening Post in your inbox! When this photo appeared in an October 1926 issue, the Post editors believed it was the first photograph of a football game in progress. The sight of a photographer on the field was so unusual that the players thought he was carrying a bomb and chased after him, but he convinced them of his innocent intentions. The photo shows Columbia College employing a “Flying Wedge” against the Princeton line in an 1890 game. The formation called for ten p

  4. Article · Sep 2, 2026 · Jeff Nilsson

    From the Archive: In Defense of Higher Education | The Saturday Evening Post (opens the original)

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    The best of The Saturday Evening Post in your inbox! In 1901, many Americans still viewed higher education with suspicion or denounced it as a waste of time. College diplomas were a rarity; only around 4 percent of students had the chance to attend university. But, as the Post’s editors point out, a college education was proving essential to success in the new century. Of the thousand people named in a recent dictionary of successful Americans, 97 percent had received some higher education. Some

  5. Article · Aug 27, 2026 · Jeff Nilsson

    From the Archive: Dorothy Parker | The Saturday Evening Post (opens the original)

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    The best of The Saturday Evening Post in your inbox! —Originally published in the June 17, 1922, issue of The Saturday Evening Post It’s unfortunate that Dorothy Parker is mostly remembered today for her one-line witticisms. She was actually a gifted writer of short stories and poetry who published frequently in The Saturday Evening Post in the early 1920s. Most of her work here was in verse, but she also contributed several prose pieces. She published her first poem in 1914, and around 300 more

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