The Saturday Evening Post articles from March 1995

The Saturday Evening Post archives from March 1995

Quick and easy microwave dishes. (includes recipes)
March 1, 1995... "Variety is the Mother of Enjoyment," Benjamin Disraeli wrote, and even though the famous British prime minister was thinking about education at the time, the epithet surely applies to food as well. Side dishes of vegetables, rice, or dressing...

Last Wishes: A Handbook to Guide Your Survivors.
March 1, 1995... By Lucinda Page Knox, M.S.W., and Michael D. Knox, Ph.D. 160 pages, Ulysses Press, $12.95 "The time has come, " the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes--and ships--and sealing wax-- Of cabbages--and kings-- And why the sea is...

Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business.
March 1, 1995... "Every day I count my blessings," writes Dolly Parton in her autobiography, Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business. "Then I count my money." And she has much to count, according to one estimate that places her assets at more than $100...

Translating the Bible for today.
March 1, 1995... Organizations customarily celebrate an important anniversary with champagne. Not so the American Bible Society. This venerable institution has chosen to mark its 180th year with a new translation of God's Word designed specifically for the...

Under the deck-awnings. (fiction)
March 1, 1995... Editor's note: Jack London first achieved fame in 1903 when the Post published The Call of the Wild. His short story, "Under the Deck-Awnings," appeared in the Post's Nov. 19, 1910, issue. "Can any man--a gentleman, I mean--call a woman a pig?"...

How I pray. (pastor)
March 1, 1995... I define prayer as the human practice of connecting with the transcendent eternal spirit that we call God. I'm a Christian, so that's my frame of reference, and in the Bible, we're taught to pray constantly. I think prayer has different...

Reba McEntire: working mom. (country singer)
March 1, 1995... Today Reba McEntire--Tone of the top entertainers in the booming country music field, a growing actress, a savvy businesswoman--was busy with the job she likes most: being a mom. Son Shelby, who turned five in February, was heading to Oklahoma...

My dad and Jack London. (correspondence)
March 1, 1995... There are many published letters of Jack London, but the ones that follow reveal much of his personality and beliefs in a special way. This exchange of previously unpublished letters took place between Jack London and my father, Stanford Hannah,...

Lock, stock, barrel, and bluing. (BB guns)
March 1, 1995... Teenagers today wouldn't be going around shooting other teenagers--or even people--if they had owned a BB gun at age six or eight. I myself owned a BB gun at age six, maybe eight, somewhere in that vicinity, and I haven't touched a gun since. You...

The boy left home. (fiction)
March 1, 1995... Sometimes I think it began the day I came into the world. Sometimes I feel certain I was born to follow him through the mountains, follow him in desperate chase until he had beaten me and I was dead on my feet. The Still Run Buck, we called him,...

Dr. Denis Burkitt: a passion for preventing disease.
March 1, 1995... When the elders passed the fluffy white cubes of bread during Communion at the Second Presbyterian Church in Indianapolis one recent Sunday, I wondered what kind of effort it would take to persuade all churches in the country to convert to...

All in the family. (illustrations) (Illustration)
March 1, 1995... A family that stays together, plays together, has hang-ups together, argues together, and occasionally even messes up together. Illustrators Hall of Fame artists have depicted it all on Post covers. Family men themselves, they no doubt had plenty...

Out of Africa... major medical discoveries. (Dr. Denis Burkitt)
March 1, 1995... One of this century's most remarkable medical careers came to an end when Dr. Denis Parsons Burkitt died at his home in Gloucester, England. at age 82. Dr. Burkitt was renowned in medical circles for discovering a grotesque cancer in children...