1941-11-12 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

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