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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

    • 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

    • 1937-11 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

    1937/11 — STORY Magazine. Volume XI, Number 64. November 1937.

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

  • “Likewise After Supper” by Ethel Turner
  • “Brother to Methuselum” by James Still
  • “If This Be Treason” by Walter Gilkyson
  • “Two Poems” by Brewster Ghiselin
  • “Homage to Shakespeare” by John Cheever
  • “Harlequinade” by Alfred Eisner
  • “Slipping Beauty” by Jerome Weidman

    • Plus essays:

  • “Measure and Value” by Thomas Mann with full-page photo of Mann
  • “Moll Flanders’ Way” by John Peale Bishop

    • 1937-10 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

    1937/10 — STORY Magazine. Volume XI, Number 63. October 1937.

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

  • “Goodbye, New York” by Cornell Woolrich
  • “History of the South” by Harriet Hassell
  • “Sunday in Flatbush” by Thomas Newman
  • “Story in Faces” by Manuel Komroff – Includes full-page black & white photographs of E.E. Cummings – Edgar Varese – John Cournos – Edward J. O’Brien – George Antheil – Albert Boni – Walter Duranty – Robert Linscott
  • “A Bit of a Do” by Eric Knight
  • “Visit to the Wounded” by Martha Gellhorn
  • “Big Brother” by Roaldus Richmond
  • “The Fairy Princess” by Royall Smith
  • “A Hill of Beans” by Gerald Breckenridge
  • Fascism by George Bernard Shaw
  • Behind the Books by Lewis Gannett
  • Writing on Thin Air by Whit Burnett

    • 1937-09 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

    1937/09 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: STORY Magazine. Volume XI, Number 62. September 1937.

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

  • “Young American Couple” by Griffith Beems
  • “Rome Was Not Built In a Day” by Alice Weber
  • “Captain Postovov” by Carl Jacobs
  • “The Willow Tree” by Frances Frost
  • “An Incident of Violence, Complete” by Mort Friedlander
  • “The Pond” by R.F. Baum
  • “Hotel Raliegh, The Bowery” by Albert Maltz

    • 1937-08 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

    1937/08 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: STORY Magazine. Volume XI, Number 61. August 1937.

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

  • “Maxie Makes a Splash” by Arnold Manoff
  • “A Peculiar Patriotic Twist” by George Weller
  • “The Old Master” by Sean O’Faolain
  • “The Picnic” by Elisa Bialk
  • “Shuttle Train” by Charles Coppock
  • “The Song the Summer Evening Sings” by I.J. Kapstein

    • 1937-07 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

    1937/07 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: STORY Magazine. Volume XI, Number 60. July 1937.

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

  • “Explosion in Russia” by Walter Duranty
  • “Summer Remembered” by John Cheever
  • “The Trains” by William Saroyan
  • “Niggers Are Such Liars” by Richard Paulette Creyke
  • “Papa Is a Pole, Alas” by Lewis Carliner
  • “Carrie” by Emily Gage
  • “The Flying Yorkshireman” by Eric Knight

    • 1937-06 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

    1937/06 — STORY Magazine. Volume X, Number 59. June 1937.

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

  • “The Bandicoot” by Chadrapal
  • “The Gladiator” by J.M. McKeon
  • “Sacre du Printemps” by Ludwig Bemelmans
  • “Nostalgia” by Wendell Wilcox
  • “…on a Parnassian Slope” by Warren Beck
  • “Noon Wine” by Katherine Anne Porter

    • 1937-05 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

    1937/05 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: STORY Magazine. Volume X, Number 58. May 1937.

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

  • “The Spaniard” by Prudencio de Pereda
  • “Manhole” by Stella Ryan
  • “Mr. Guilfoyle, Darlint” by Hassoldt Davis
  • “The Saluting Doll” by Hamlen Hunt
  • “No Dawn” by William A. Krauss
  • “Arrival” by Mary Porter Russell
  • “Death of a Virgin” by Ralph Bates

    • Plus essays:

  • “Emigres All” by Martha Foley
  • “Life & Letters at 15” by Burton Roscoe

    • 1937-04 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

    1937/04 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: STORY Magazine. Volume X, Number 57. April 1937.

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

  • “Mr. Sycamore” by Robert Ayre
  • “Holy Day in Persia” by Nellie Yohannan
  • “The Linden Leaf” by John T. Burke
  • “Sympathizer” by Victor Barnouw
  • “Kitty the Wren” by Sean O’Faolain
  • “A Real American Fellow” by George Thorp Rayner

    • 1937-02 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

    1937/02 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: STORY Magazine. Volume X, Number 55. February 1937.

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

  • “The Other’s Porridge” by Lella Warren
  • “The Hand” by Wessel Hyatt Smitter
  • “Nice Quiet Apartment” by Travis Hoke
  • “Boy in the Summer Sun” by Mark Schorer
  • “House Warming” by Charles O’Neill
  • “Journey Through Sunlight” by Dan Wickenden

    • Plus an essay:

  • Chekhov’s Middle Years” by Nina A. Toumanova

    • 1937-01 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

    1937/01 — STORY Magazine. Volume X, Number 54. January 1937.

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

  • “Finger Wet, Finger Dry” by H.E. Bates
  • “Man Among Men” by Katharine Patten
  • “Iscariot” by Matt Armstrong
  • “Father Was a Wit” by Angelica Gibbs
  • “Cajin Boy” by Charles Martin
  • “I’m Your Old Man” by George Frazier
  • “Another Year” by Frances Gunther
  • “The Moon Watch” by Bruno Frank

    • Plus essays:

  • “The Dilemma of the Liberal” by Dorothy Thompson
  • “Firsts” by Horace Gregory

    • 1936-11 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

    1936/11 — STORY Magazine. Volume IX, Number 52. November 1936.

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

  • “A Passenger to Bali” by Ellis St. Joseph
  • “That Dangerous Young Man” by Samuel Rogers
  • “My Mother’s Uncle Hal” by William Polk
  • “Little Boy Lives in a Mining Camp” by Ernestine Magagna
  • “When We Were Young” by Thomas Bell
  • “A Leaner” by Len Zinberg
  • “…of Mr. S. Yamamato” by R.H. Linn
  • “Father Patko” by Jerome Bahr

    • 1936-10 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

    1936/10 — STORY Magazine. Volume IX, Number 51. October 1936.

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

  • “Partial Eclipse” by James Laughlin IV
  • “Rainy Evening” by Roma Rose
  • “A Love of Some Kind” by Madelene Cole
  • “Birthday at the Gin” by Harvey M. Williamson
  • “Harmony and the Milkman” by Marjorie Murphy
  • “Inside, Outside” by Ludwig Bemelmans
  • “First Glimpse of America” by Harry bernstein
  • “No Chitlins” by James R. Aswell
  • “Lonely Lives” by Sean O’Faolain
  • End Pages by Whit Burnett

    • 1936-09 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

    1936/09 — STORY Magazine. Volume IX, Number 50. September 1936.

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

  • “A Black Swan” by Norah Lofts
  • “Visit to Tophet: by Evan Coombes
  • “Mist and the Tall White Tower” by Mari Sandoz
  • “Three at a Circus” by Frances Park
  • “Our Dear Little American” by Eleanor Hoffmann
  • “A Man of Principle” by James Steele
  • “Or the World Weel Lost” by Elsie Plant

    • 1936-08 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

    1936/08 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: STORY Magazine. Volume IX, Number 49. August 1936.

    Contents as taken from both the front cover are:

  • “A Blade of Grass” by Edita Morris
  • “Room in the World” by Leane Zugsmith
  • “Mr. Minnow in Trouble” by William Harlan Hale
  • “Lillian” by Henry Morris
  • “Home to Utah” by Wallace Stegner
  • “The Arbutus Collar” by Jeremiah Digges
  • “The Strange Man Who Came to See Christopher” by Sally Humason
  • “Pizzicato on the Heartstrings” by Peter De Vries
  • “The Son” by Lilika Nakos
  • End Pages…Survey of Reviews

    • 1936-07 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

    1936/07 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: STORY Magazine. Volume IX, Number 48. July 1936.

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

  • “Strawberries from Memel” by Elsa Hertel
  • “Glory, Glory, Hallelujah!” by Martha Foley
  • “Valerosa” by Alexis H. Smith
  • “Morning in Basle” by Aldous Huxley
  • “The Jess Willard Crouch” by Hobart Lewis
  • “Daughter of Demeter” by Stoyan Christowe
  • “Paradise Lost” by H.A. Manhood
  • “When They Grow Up” by Marjorie Lyon

    • 1936-06 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

    1936/06 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: STORY Magazine. Volume VIII, Number 47. June 1936.

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

  • “No Angels Sang” by Paul S. Nathan
  • “Dark Spring” by Mary Brinker Post
  • “Silent Whistle” by Ernest Brace
  • “Confession” by Robert Traver
  • “The Cat” by William Saroyan
  • “Without End” by Dan Wickenden
  • “So Now Goodbye” by Mollie Panter-Downes
  • “Have the Honor to Invite You” by Mina Brownstone
  • “Enter Daisy …” by Charles Cooke
  • “It Sure Whips Me” by Jack Boone

    • 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.

    • 1936-03 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

    1936/03 — STORY Magazine. Volume VIII, Number 44. March 1936.

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

  • “The Iron City” by Lovell Thompson
  • “Black Rose Boquet” by Joseph F. Dinneen
  • “Her Own Good” by Ernest Brace
  • “The Red Box” by Fred Smilow
  • “The Rut” by Paul Monash
  • “The White Mule” by A.I. Bezzerides
  • “An Amusing Story” by Leane Zugsmith
  • “The Birth at Dawn” by L.M. Hussey

    • 1936-02 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

    1936/02 — STORY Magazine. Volume VIII, Number 43. February 1936.

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

  • “Ben Haskell” by Shirley Berton
  • “The Key in the Lock” by Jon Edgar Webb
  • “How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife” by Manuel E. Arguilla
  • “The Two Bottles of Relish” by Lord Dunsany
  • “Four Days Left” by Elsa B. Meyerson
  • “Coffee ‘an” by Eric Sonnichsen
  • “Ander Oklus an’ de Lion” by Margaret Sherrod Bearnson
  • “Lost Time Run” by Curtis Martin
  • “The Last Equation” by Roger Burlingame

    • 1936-01 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

    1936/01 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: STORY Magazine. Volume VIII, Number 42. January 1936.

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

  • “A Chance for Mr. Lever” by Graham Greene
  • “Mrs. Brown Was Mrs. Jericho” by Edward Harris Heth
  • “Horses in Connecticut” by F.M. Burnley
  • “On Second Thought” by Elizabeth Coatsworth
  • “Boy Waiting” by James Pooler
  • “Opatrnostr!” by Eric Walter White
  • “Keys” by Helen Dore Boylston
  • And the regular “End Pages” column is penned this issue by Sherwood Anderson

    • 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