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1934-06 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

1934/06 — STORY Magazine. Volume IV, Number 23. June 1934.

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

  • “An Old Palace” by Benedict Thielen
  • “She’s Nothing to Me” by Morley Callaghan
  • “Ceremonial into Manhood” by Michael Bruen
  • “He Fell Downstairs” by Gunnar Mickelsen
  • “The Ticket Game” by George Manning Sanders
  • “Hardscrabble” by Bernadine Kielty
  • “A Pink Dahlia” by Villa Stiles
  • “Ex-Champion Nailer” by Wessel Hyatt Smitter
  • “Whin Valley” by H.M. Hamilton

    • 1934-05 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

    1934/05 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: STORY Magazine. Volume IV, Number 22. May 1934.

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

  • “A Carp’s Love” a new story by Anton Chekhov
  • “A Chapter on the French Revolution” by W.K. Winsatt, Jr.
  • “Husband” by Rion Bercovici
  • “The Shepherd’s Daughter” by William Saroyan
  • “Mac” by Amram Whiteman
  • “Shoes” by Synnove Larsen Baasch
  • “The Finer Points” by Wayne Grover
  • “The House Divided” by Gladys Schmitt
  • “Death of Uncle Silas” by H.E. Bates
  • “The Crop” by William Polk

    • 1934-04 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

    1934/04 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: STORY Magazine. Volume IV, Number 21. April 1934.

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

  • “Seventy Thousand Assyrians” by William Saroyan
  • “Spring” by Edmund Barach
  • “Snow Caps” by L.A.G. Strong
  • “Friendship Ring” by Emanuel Eisenberg
  • “The Cardboard Rooster” by George Cronyn
  • “Madame” by Edwin Lanham
  • “Contested Vigil” by Thomas Howells
  • “An Underground Episode” by Edmund Ware
  • “A Pasture of Thorns” by Carleton Stevens Coon
  • “I Wouldn’t Give Them to Say” by John S. McNamara

    • 1934-03 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

    1934/03 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: STORY Magazine. Volume IV, Number 20. March 1934.

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

  • “Sunday Morning” by Dorothy McCleary
  • “Sunstroke” by Ivan Bunin
  • “Who Killed Cock Robin?” by Romer Wilson
  • “Operation” by Hubert Creekmore
  • “The Good Family” by Benjamin Appel
  • “Indian Business” by Eric Howard
  • “Iron” by Joel Barnett
  • “Parish of Cockroaches” by Vincent McHugh
  • “A Cry in the Wilderness” by John Held, Jr.
  • “The Venus Arms” by Herzl Fife

    • 1934-02 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

    1934/02 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: STORY Magazine. Volume IV, Number 19. February 1934.

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

  • “Elly” by William Faulkner
  • “The Sight of Blood” by John Hampson
  • “Burial at Muleshoe” by Juana Faust
  • “Contentment is Silent” by Peter Neagoe
  • “The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze” by William Saroyan
  • “Five Dollars a Week” by Horace Rathbone
  • “Paris Interlude” by Edgar Calmer
  • “Obsession” by Ruth Pine Furniss
  • “All Days End” by Richard Sherman

    • 1934-01 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

    1934/01 — STORY Magazine. Volume IV, Number 18. January 1934.

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

  • “Actual Riot Scenes” by H.M. LeTissier
  • “Accomodation Ladder” by Hedy Verena Gossman
  • “A Boxer: Old” by Harry Sylvester
  • “Love Comes Softly” by Robert Henderson
  • “The Deacon” by Emmett Gowen
  • “The Escape” by Jean Temple
  • “Nazi Nights’ Entertainment” by Lawrence Gilbert and Charles E. Hewitt Jr.
  • “First Night, Last Night” by Eleanor Saltzman
  • “A Simple Peasant” by Ivan Bunin

    • 1933-10 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

    1933/10 — STORY Magazine. Volume III, Number 15. October 1933.

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

  • “”The Sled” by Beulah Roberts Childers
  • “On Board the West Hardaway” by Malcolm Lowry

  • “Man’s Day” by Frederick Scribner
  • “O’Bannon’s Bees” by R.C. Woods
  • “The Dog Eye” by Richard Hallet
  • “Matanza” by Theodore Pratt
  • “At Mama’s” by Bernardine Kielty
  • “The Lily” by H.F. Bates
  • “Death and Transfiguration” by Alan Marshall

    • 1935-08 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

    1935/08 — STORY Magazine. Volume VII, Number 37. August 1935.

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

  • “I Shall Decline My Head” by Nancy Evans
  • “Night After Night” by Jon Edgar Webb
  • “But Were There No Reporters There?” by William Harlan Hale
  • “Second Nature” by May Bosman
  • “Silver Spoon” by J. Bretwon Berry
  • “Rondo” by Gale Wilhelm
  • “Mabel Finney” by Thyra Samter Winslow
  • “When Farmers Sang” by Paul Corey
  • End Pages by The Editors

    • 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

    • 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

    • 1936-03 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

    • 1936-06 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

    • 1936-07 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

    • 1936-08 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

    • 1936-09 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

    • 1936-10 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

    • 1936-11 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 1937-04 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

    • 1937-05 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

    • 1937-06 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