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The article presents the author's views on the attributes of William Rockhill Nelson as an editor accountable for his success. Aggressiveness, reliability and honesty, accuracy and personality of the editor were the attributes. The editor had chosen fiery young men, either fresh college passed outs or even from high school to mould them to his viewpoint, and let them fight for it. In the pressroom he read every line printed in newspaper. It was a unique way of monitoring. Each person in the newsroom was supplementary to the other. Nelson expected every man to write the stories in pencil and paper, because he believed that typewriters destroyed the creative ability of men.

The article provides information about the contributors of the "Saturday Evening Post" (SEP) magazine. Charles Wertenbaker and his family went to France to live in the same house which they have previously dwelt before. A photograph of SEP's art editor Kenneth Stuart was taken reading the magazine while floating on the Great Salt Lake in Utah. Dick English's wife Kay discovered that his husband received death threats from communist due to his paper about Soviet Union agents.