1941/11-12 -- ITEM DESCRIPTION: STORY Magazine. Volume XIX, Number 92. November-December 1941.

Contents as taken from both the front cover and the index page inside are:

  • "But It's O! In My Heart" by Joan Vatsek
  • "Greatest Thing in the World" by Norman K. Mailer I assume this to be Mailer's first short story, though it appears to have been previously published in the April 1941 issue of The Harvard Advocate from where I believe it was entered to win this award; the Eighth Annual College Short Story Contest Winner from STORY Magazine. About Mailer on the Contributors Page it says the following: NORMAN K. MAILER, first prize winner of STORY's eighth nationwide contest conducted among the colleges of the United States, was a student at Harvard from which "The Greatest Thing in the World" was entered. He was born in Long Branch, NJ, January 31, 1923; he is probably one of STORY's youngest contributors." Mailer was 18 at the time this was published!
  • "My Grandfather's Eyes" by Stoyan Christowe
  • "Voice With a Smile" by Margaret Garvey
  • "Adventure in the Morning" by Eli Cantor
  • "Tell Him I Waited" by Morton Fineman
  • "Lighting-Up Time" by Padraic Fallon
  • "The Fall of Little Ajax" by Ira Henry Freeman
  • "The Island That Turned Its Back on the Sea" by Knud Stouman
  • "Changes in the House" by Griffith Beems
  • "Last Ship Home" by Frank K. Kelly