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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

    • 1935-10 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

    • 1935-11 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

    • 1935-12 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

    • 1935-05 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

    • 1935-06 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

    • 1935-03 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 1941-03-04 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

    1941/03-04 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: STORY Magazine. Volume XVIII, Number 88. March-April 1941.

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

  • “The End of Monte Carlo” by Ellis St. Joseph
  • “Remember Mother” by Frances Eisenberg
  • “Between Two Worlds” by Warren Beck
  • “Sam Small’s Better Half” by Eric Knight
  • “The Leper in the Swamp” by Nancy Wilson Ross
  • “The Bees” by Joan Vatsek
  • “Eighteenth Summer” by Hallie Southgate Abbett
  • “Still Life” by James Ramsey Ullman

    • 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

    • 1941-05-06 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

    1941/05-06 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: STORY Magazine. Volume XVIII, Number 89. May-June 1941.

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

  • Frontispiece of Edward J. O’Brien
  • “One With Shakespeare” by Martha Foley
  • “Rest Cure” by Kay Boyle
  • “A Day in the Country” by Whit Burnett
  • “Missis Flinders” by Tess Slesinger
  • “Death and Transfiguration” by Alan Marshall
  • “Winter” by Dorothy McCleary
  • “The Daring Young Man …” by William Saroyan
  • “A Note on Novellas” from the Editors
  • “The Captive” by Luigi Pirandello
  • “Solo on the Cornet” by Dean Fales
  • “Sacre du Printemps” by Ludwig Bemelmans
  • “Address Unknown” by Kressmann Taylor
  • “The Old General” by Eric Knight

    • 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

    • 1941-07-08 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

    1941/07-08 — STORY Magazine. Volume XIX, Number 90. July-August 1941.

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

  • “I Wed Thee Till Sunday” by William Fifield
  • “The Doctors and the Artists of Heaven” by Charles Angoff
  • “The Lamb and the Wolves” by Peter Neagoe
  • “John Duffy’s Brother” by Flann O’Brien
  • “Return to the Bronx” by Robert Markewich
  • “Southgate Belle” by Sylvia Thompson
  • “The Almost” by Virginia Moore
  • “Chicken Dinner” by James Ramsey Ullman

    • 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

    • 1941-09-10 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

    1941/09-10 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: STORY Magazine. Volume XIX, Number 91. September-October 1941.

    From the dedication page:This issue of STORY is a departure from the magazine’s ten-year policy of exclusive devotion to the creative short story. This exception to its usual course is the result of an unfortunate event — the death this year of Sherwood Anderson, the greatest contemporary short story writer …

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

  • “Portrait 1923” taken by Alfred Stieglitz
  • “Sherwood Anderson” by Theodore Dreiser
  • “The Man of Good Will” by Paul Rosenfeld
  • “A Robin’s Egg Renaissance” by Sherwood Anderson
  • “Winesburg, Ohio” by Waldo Frank
  • “Anderson in Chicago” by Harry Hansen
  • “Hello Towns” by Harry Roskolenko
  • “Anderson’s Philosophy” by Julius W. Friend
  • “Letters to Van Wyck Brooks” by Sherwood Anderson
  • “Sherwood’s Sweetness” by Gertrude Stein
  • “French Reminiscence” by Lewis Galantiere
  • “Letter” by Thomas Wolfe
  • “The Storyteller” by Henry Miller
  • “His Collaborators” by William Saroyan
  • “The Champion” by Jesse Stuart
  • “Through a College Window” by Winifred Bland
  • “We’re All Fools” by Kenneth Patchen
  • “A Man in Town” by James Boyd
  • “Go, Scholar-Gypsy!” by Ben Hecht
  • “Procession in the Rain” by Manual Komroff
  • “Auction Day in Missouri” by Ferner Nuhn
  • “Spring, 1941” by Marsden Hartley
  • “The Triumph of the Egg” by Sherwood Anderson