1949 was a huge year in history---U.S. President Harry S. Truman unveils his Fair Deal program--- Los Angeles receives its first recorded snowfall---The First VW came to America---The first Emmy Awards are presented at the Hollywood Athletic Club---Grady the Cow, a 1,200-pound cow, gets stuck inside a silo on a farm in Yukon, Oklahoma and garners national media attention in the United States---World heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis retires---The movie Hamlet wins the Academy Award for Best Picture---– Cold War: The Soviet Union lifts the Berlin Blockade---The first television western, Hopalong Cassidy, airs on NBC---- North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) established----U.S. President Harry S. Truman announced that the USSR tested the atomic bomb---It was the year Bruce Jenner was born.....

Oh and so many more wonderful events happened in this year...

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This Saturday Evening Post is an original August 6, 1949 issue

Front cover edges slightly deteriated and one small area (1 inch by 2.5 inches) missing. Value $10. Articles include: We Bucked the Arctic Ice Pack, An Alexander Botts Story, and New Help for that Headache. Note cover damage.