The American Legion Magazine [Volume 49, No. 3 (September 1950)]

Cover Design by Albert Staehle -- He Wanted A Home (Fiction): The Stranger Almost Put Him In The Electric Chair by Garth R. Spencer -- Lines From La: What The Wideawake Convention-Goer Will See And Say -- We Are Wide Open To Attack: Neglect Of Civil Defense Has Put Us In Peril by George N. Craig -- Football Forecast For &Apos;50: What Is Coming Up On The Nation's Gridirons by Ed Fitzgerald -- What Is Left Of The War Surplus? There Are Still Bargains But They're Harder To Find by George H. Waltz, Jr. -- I Won Over Paralysis: In Case You Think You Have It Tough by Donald Carruthers, Jr. -- How Do You Rate As A Mate? Some Questions For Husbands And Wives by Walter Duckat -- Forrestal Was Right: Some Uncanny Predictions by The Late Secretary Of Defense by George Fielding Eliot -- I Saw The Surrender: It Happened Five Years Ago, On The Big Mo by Boyd B. Stutler -- They Won't Talk About War: Combat Stories That Few Civilians Have Ever Heard by Josh M. Drake, Jr. -- The National Legionnaire -- Products Parade -- The Editors' Corner -- Sound Off! -- Newsletter -- Memo To The Ladies -- Vets With Ideas -- Parting Shots