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in pencil in top margin: Diggles, Joe handwritten note at top of page Feb 9 '69 Dear Jack -I just finished Admiral Morison's double underline: "John Paul Jones". He arrow to "John Paul Jones' is our Mini-Nelson. R.I.P. - JCD Newspaper clipping drawing of magazine cover THE SATURDAY EVE POST MARCH 9, 20 5c showing seated man holding a copy of POST signed J Downs The last great years of the Post Looking back without anger, editor Ben Hibbs remembers the glories of a proud magazine By HOKE NORRIS

  italicized paragraph  The Saturday Evening Post dies today.  The sentence of death was passed back on Jan. 10, but such is the process of publishing - once the issue of a magazine has entered the cycle it is unstoppable and irreversible - that it had to stay alive, though doomed, for four more weeks.  Actually, however, the old and once venerable Post had been living for years on transfusion, transplant and artificial respiration - on borrowed time.  The sentence was a formality.

  THE EDITOR of the Saturday Evening Post during its last era of prosperity was Ben Hibbs.