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1935-12 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents December 1935

1935/12 —

Contents as taken from the front cover are:

  • “Who’s Mr. Billings?” by Philip Bregy
  • “Of Love: A Testimony” by John Cheever – Early Cheever, the author was just 23 years old at this time.
  • “Dead-Eye” by Jack Yeaman Bryan
  • “This Was Love” by Frances Frost
  • “Meet Me in the Shadows” by Eric Knight
  • “Alumni Weekly” by Jack Iams
  • “He Sailed Away by Elliott Merrick
  • “Report on a Movie” by Rose Rochman
  • “Four Fishermen Talk of Wilkie” by James Pooler
  • Survey of Reviews – Notes – Books

    • 1935-11 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents November 1935

    1935/11 —

    Contents as taken from the front cover are:

  • “The Fallen Angel and the Hunter’s Moon” by William Polk
  • “A Life in the Day of a Writer” by Tess Slesinger
  • “A Meeting” by Sean O’Faolain
  • “Thanks for Nothing” by Roaldus Richmond
  • “The Doorstop” by Roy Flannagan
  • “That’s What Happened to Me” by Michael Fessier
  • “Two Words Are a Story” by Elizabeth Hall
  • “Mrs. Kent” by Robert Smith
  • End Pages – New Departments – Books

    • 1935-10 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents October 1935

    1935/10 —

    Contents as taken from the front cover are:

  • “The Man in the Purple Suit” by Carleton Stevens Coon
  • “Nothing Wrong” by Leane Zugsmith
  • “Dressed for Going Away” by Ruth Blodgett
  • “Little Acorns” by Eugene Armfield
  • “A Love Story’ by Chester Crowell
  • “The Visit” by Elizabeth Coatsworth
  • “Wizard’s Waterloo” by Carl Wilhelmson
  • End Pages by The Editors

    • 1935-09 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents September 1935

    1935/09 —

    Contents as taken from the front cover are:

  • “$595 F.O.B.” by George H. Corey
  • “Gust of Wind” by Lu Sin
  • “Mrs. Welsbach’s Night of Sin” by Madelene Cole
  • “Fascimo Californiaus” by R.A. Emberg
  • “Downfall of Small-Measure Lanigan” by Charles O’Brien Kennedy
  • “September Night” by Roger F. How
  • “Midsummer Evening” by Alice B. Parsons
  • “Sothey’s Duke” by Edward N. Robinson
  • End Pages by The Editors

    • 1935-06 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents June 1935

    1935/06 —

    Contents as taken from the front cover are:

  • “The Murder on Jefferson Street” by Dorothy Canfield
  • “First Parting” by E.A. Moll
  • “Bare Legs” by Edward Anderson
  • “Angus of the Satires” by R.C. Woods
  • “Catafalque” by Charles Cooke
  • “The Vines” by A.I. Bezzerides
  • “Voyageur” by H.W. Whicker
  • “Rigmarole” by Morley Callaghan
  • End Pages by The Editors

    • 1935-05 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents May 1935

    1935/05 —

    Contents as taken from the front cover are:

  • “They Were Seven” by Richebourg McWilliams
  • “The Tuckle Beard” by Ellis Parker Butler
  • “We Come Down from the Hills” by Lewis Carliner
  • “A Love Story” by Frederic Prokosch
  • “Grandmother Cow” by Signe Mauren Leibst
  • “Travelers” by L.A. Pavey

  • “Poet’s Wife” by Martha Dodd
  • “Red Coat Day” by R.P. Harriss
  • “The Sun in His Eyes” by Ben Sills
  • “Study Period” by John W. Bosworth
  • “The Insult” by Gloria Kenison

    • 1935-03 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents March 1935

    1935/03 —

    Contents as taken from the front cover are:

  • “Solo on the Cornet” by Dean Fales
  • “Michael’s Wife” by Frank O’Connor
  • “Of the Genus Lotus” by Barry Fleming
  • “Sairy and the Young ‘Uns” by Beulah Roberts Childers
  • “How Own Country” by Michel Selman
  • “The Girl from Binghamton” by Frank B. Elser
  • “Caballero” by Amos Godfrey McConky

  • “Fall of Lucifer” by Alfred Grimwood
  • “Eine Kleine Nacht” by Peter De Vries
  • Restatement by The Editors

    • 1936-04 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents April 1936

    1936/04 —

    Contents as taken from the front cover are:

  • “The Night Reveals” by Cornell Woolrich
  • “Poor Miss Maggie” by Dorothy Canfield
  • “The Nurse, the Angel, the Daughter of the Gambler” by William Saroyan
  • “Then Was Hey-Day” by Peter Neagoe
  • “One Into One Is Two” by Elsie Plaut
  • “Beautiful Holler’s Divorce” by Ernest Booth
  • “The Vigilante” by Victor Schiff
  • “Wedding Present” by E.A. Moll
  • “Australian Horizon” by John T. Burke
  • “The First Five Years” by Whit Burnett
  • Survey of Review – Books – Etc.

    • 1934-08 Story Magazine Contents August 1934

    1934/08 — STORY Magazine. Volume V, Number 25. August 1934.

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

  • “A Raincoat in Texas” by Arthur Dee
  • “Brasses in Thirds” by Charles Cooke
  • “Wedding Day” by Richard Greenleaf
  • “The Moran Scandal’ by Dorothy Canfield
  • “Encounter Before Night” by George Zilliac
  • “Beaver” by Hal Borland

  • “A Ride Home” by August W. Derleth

  • “This Town and Salamanca” by Allan Seager
  • “Little Elise” by Dorothy McCleary
  • Notes from The Editors

    • 1940-09-10 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

    1940/09-10 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: STORY Magazine. Volume XVII, Number 85. September-October 1940.

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

  • “Sam Small’s Tyke” by Eric Knight
  • “Young Mr. Cinderella” by Gerald Breckinridge
  • “I’d Give it All Up for Tahiti” by Paul Kunasz
  • “Beyond the Breakers” by Kevin Wallace
  • “Big Ed” by Oliver H.P. Garrett
  • “The Way Grows Narrow for Two” by Roaldus Richmond
  • “Heshie the Sailor” by Morton Freedgood
  • “The System Was Doomed” by Meyer Levin
  • “The Magic Wire” by Felicia Gizycka

    • 1938-04 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

    1938/04 — STORY Magazine. Volume XII, Number 69. April 1938.

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

  • “On a Chinese Scaffold” by Margaret Mackprang Mackay
  • “Homecoming” by Barbara Elrod Knittel
  • “Mother of a Child” by Rachel Maddux
  • “Slickbritches” by Jeremiah Digges
  • “The Interview” by James Higgins
  • “The Trouble With People” by Dale Smith
  • “Fakhreddin” by Samuel Gaspar
  • “News of Tomorrow” by Henry Peter Malmgreen
  • “Home from the Sea” by William Polk
  • “What Shall I Say?” by Paul Burns
  • “Divide by Night” by Philip Stevenson
  • Only Hindus Sell, etc. by Whit Burnett
  • Behind the Books by Lewis Gannett
  • Biographical Notes – Contributors
  • Survey of Reviews – American Critics

    • 1940-07-08 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

    1940/07-08 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: STORY Magazine. Volume XVII, Number 84. July-August 1940.

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

  • “Ladies Unaccompanied” by Lionel Birch
  • “Fathers Are Like That” by Floy Murray
  • “The Horse in the Apartment” by Frances Eisenberg
  • “Sunset at Sixteen” by Dorothy Canfield
  • “Wet Ledge” by F.J. Nies
  • “Ill-Winds from the Wide World” by Peter Neagoe
  • “The Sea Never Fills” by Dan Brennan
  • “This Is the One” by Dorothy McCleary

    • 1940-05-06 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

    1940/05-06 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: STORY Magazine. Volume XVI, Number 83. May-June 1940.

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

  • “The Bath” by Liam O’Flaherty
  • “And Now the Children” by Julia Davis
  • “The Three Swimmers and the Educated Grocer” by William Saroyan
  • “Without Hal” by Roy Patchen Brooks
  • “All You Need is One Good Break” by Arnold Manoff
  • “Conversation in Thursday Street” by Margery Sharp
  • “Called For” by Mabel L. Robinson
  • “The Indispensable Jew” by Hans Hirt
  • “Love” by Jesse Stuart
  • “War of Nerves” by B.V. Voorhees
  • “Nigger Jobs” by Charles Martin

    • 1940-03-04 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

    1940/03-04 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: STORY Magazine. Volume XVI, Number 82. March-April 1940. A Love Story Issue

    Contents as taken from both the front cover are:

  • “The Tower” by Jeanne Singer
  • “Stawberries in January” by Vivian Connell
  • “There Must Be Someone” by Lionel Wiggam
  • “The Young Folks” by J.D. Salinger
  • “Poet’s Grief” by Emmett Gowen
  • “The Years Go By” by Alphabelle Daily
  • “Tracks in the Snow” by Edward Havill
  • “Easter Egg” by Frank Brookhouser
  • “Honeymoon” by V.G. Calderon
  • Survey of Reviews

    • 1940-01-02 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

    1940/01-02 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: STORY Magazine. Volume XVI, Number 81. January-February 1940.

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

  • “Death of the Past” by Brewster Ghiselin
  • “North to Jackson” by Frank Sisk
  • “His Fortieth Birthday” by T.O. Beachcroft
  • “Hot Date” by Robert O’ Erisman
  • “My Brother, My Son” by Alvah Bessie
  • “The Party” by M.P. Hall
  • “The Way We Play” by Peggy Harding
  • “Benjamin Franklin’s Automobile” by George Froeschel
  • “Sand of the Cambrian Sea” by John Benton

    • 1939-11-12 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

    1939/11-12 — STORY Magazine. Volume XV, Number 80. November-December 1939.

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

  • “In Search of a Brother” by Hedy Verena Gossman
  • “The End of It” by Cavish Lewis
  • “A Game Cock” by Michael McLaverty
  • “Columbine Street” by Bernice Carey Fitch
  • “The Pool” by Howard O’Hagen
  • “The Hunters of Wop-Roost” by Guido D’Agostino
  • Three Little Stories by Martha Eberle
  • “Double Solitaire” by Mark Harris

    • End Pages:

  • England Imperturbe by Bernadine Kielty
  • Biographies – Contributors
  • Survey of Reviews – American Critics

    • 1939-09-10 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

    1939/09-10 — STORY Magazine. Volume XV, Number 79. September-October 1939.

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

  • “Heil, Jennie!” by Jane Eberle
  • “Just Plug it In” by Frederick Scribner
  • “Brother-In-Law, Eif Tongs” by Jesse Stuart
  • “Something Jolly” by Dorothy McCleary
  • The Field of Blue Children” by Tennessee Williams Very early Williams apparently after amateur produced plays but just prior to his first professionally produced play. From the biography section of this issue: TENNESSEE WILLIAMS writes, “I’m twenty-five, a native of Mississippi, descendant of Indian-fighting Tennessee pioneers. I’ve attended three universities, getting my B.A. degree last summer from the University of Iowa. While there, I worked as a waiter in the state hospital–waiting tables is my chief subsidiary occupation although I’ve also been employed in a shoe warehouse, office and retail store for short periods between my work at college. I’ve had two long plays presented in St. Louis by the Mummers of that city–they were “Fugitive Kind: and “Candles to the Sun”. I have two long plays in progress. Right now I’m doing chores and picking squabs for my board on a pigeon ranch in Los Angeles country and have just returned from a 440-mile bicycle tour or rural Mexico and the Southern California coast line. This spring I was given a Group Theatre prize for a one-act play.” So as you can see, this is pretty early Tennessee Williams!
  • “The Way Death Comes” by Prudencio de Pereda
  • “The Waterfall” by J.W. Palmer
  • “My Grandfather, Detective” by Edde Tarjan
  • “Fine Place We Had Last Year” by Roderick Lull

    • 1939-07-08 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

    1939/07-08 — STORY Magazine. Volume XV, Number 78. July-August 1939.

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

  • “The Trouper” by Jack Iams
  • “Seveck Builds a Cabin” by Elizabeth Chabot Forrest
  • “At Rest” by Lawrence McKinnin
  • “Accident” by James T. Farrell
  • “Nothing Can Change It” by Charles Cooke
  • “Prize Bull” by E.M. Berry
  • “Marge and Kate Smith” by Mel Weightman
  • “The Horse” by Meridel LaSueur

    • 1939-05-06 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

    1939/05-06 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: STORY Magazine. Volume XIV, Number 77. May-June 1939.

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

  • “Roof Sitter” by Frances Eisenberg
  • “Chabancheh Makay by Yao She-yin
  • “The Beautiful Fire” by I.V. Morris
  • “Benny” by Neville Peace
  • “This is My Blood” by James Laughlin IV
  • “Four Worms Turning” by Morton Stern
  • “David, I’ve Told Them” by Mary Jonathan
  • “The Sunrise” by W.E. Fishbaugh
  • “The 1700-Line” by Murray Heyert
  • “Kullan” by Edita Morris
  • “Zinc Works Craneman to Wed” by Thomas Bell

    • 1939-03-04 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

    1939/03-04 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: STORY Magazine. Volume XIV, Number 76. March-April 1939.

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

  • “Herself” by James Pooler
  • “Balm of Gilead” by Erskine Caldwell
  • “The Growing One” by Agnes Jordt Robinson
  • “Death in the Fifth Grade” by Marjorie Marks
  • “The Prime of Life” by Whitfield Cook
  • “The Lady of Respectibility” by Max White

    • 1939-01-02 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

    1939/01-02 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: STORY Magazine. Volume XIV, Number 75. January-February 1939.

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

  • “First Glamour Girl” by Frank Brookhouser
  • “Two Lovers” by Sherwood Anderson
  • “American Idyl” by Lawrence E. Watkin
  • “La-Bas” by Katherine de Montalant
  • “The Taxi” by Emily Hahn
  • “The Telephone Call” by Charles Angoff
  • “The Man With 48 Children” by V.G. Calderon
  • “No Nightingale” by Warren Beck
  • “The Old Man” by Roderick Lull
  • “God on Friday Night” by Irwin Shaw

    • 1938-05 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

    1938/05 — STORY Magazine. Volume XII, Number 70. May 1938.

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

  • “Berkshire Comedy” by Allan Seager
  • “He Sings in the City” by Michael Wilson
  • “The Best Years” by Nancy Barnes
  • “Seven Mortal Chinamen” by Harlan Hatcher
  • “Worry No More, Queen Sheba” by Frances F. Wright
  • “Shago” by James Pooler
  • “A Farewell to Beet Juice” by Frederick Scribner
  • “Passport to Nowhere” by Budd Wilson Schulberg
  • “Fishermen at Night” by Robert Traver
  • “The Deacon” by John Frazier Vance
  • “Red-rose City …” by Whit Burnett
  • Autobiography in Brief by John Gunther
  • Behind the Books by Lewis Gannett
  • Biographical Notes – Contributors
  • Survey of Reviews – American Critics

    • 1937-12 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

    1937/12 — STORY Magazine. Volume XI, Number 65. December 1937.

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

  • “Long in Populous City Pent” by Mark Schorer
  • “…Artist in Revolution” by Leon Wilson
  • “Papa Was a Souse” by Frank Dabney
  • “Thick Snow in the Oberland” by Else Mayer
  • “Woman’s Song” by Edward Davisson
  • “Turkey Hunt” by Alberta Pierson Hannum
  • “Honeymoon” by Ted Olson
  • “Fight for Sister Joe” by Richard Coleman
  • “The Star-Wagon” by Maxwell Anderson

    • Plus essays:

  • “Mansfield and Dickens” by Ben Belitt with full-page Katherine Mansfield photo
  • “Sovietism” by George Bernard Shaw
  • “Young Writer in Hollywood” by William Saroyan

    • 1940-11-12 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

    1940/11-12 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: STORY Magazine. Volume XVII, Number 86. November-December 1940.

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

  • “The Dynamiters” by John Pen. From the front cover on this one: THE Great Anti-Nazi Story of 1940 THE DYNAMITERS Hitler’s entry into Czechoslovakia is the springboard for the most exciting and significant story since “Address Unknown.” When an advance guard of storm troopers reach a little Bohemian town on the road to Prague, things happen–especially to Svoboda, the town porter. Svoboda is Czech for liberty.
  • “The Butcher” by Wilma Shore
  • “Three Little Stories” by W.W. Gibson
  • “Uncle John, the Baptist” by Jesse Stuart
  • “Dirt” by Arnold Hill
  • “My Children Are Dears” by Roma Rose
  • “”This is From David” by Meridel LeSueur

    • 1941-01-02 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

    1941/01-02 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: STORY Magazine. Volume XVIII, Number 87. January-February 1941.

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

  • “Who Called You Here” by Eric Jens Petersen billed as The First Norway War Story
  • “My Friend Flicka” by Mary O’Hara
  • “Soldier and Girl” by John Royston Morley
  • “Madame Capitaine” by Anne Green
  • “Old-Fashioned Ace” by T.O. Beachcroft
  • “Death of a Country Doctor” by Mary Medearis
  • “The Archangel Michael and Gerald Smith” by William Fifield
  • “Golfer to His Wife” by Eugene J. Hochman
  • “The Knitters” by Anne Brooks
  • “You Gotta Have Pants” by R.H. Linn
  • “The Indian in Depth of Night” by Irwin Shaw