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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

    • 1935-03 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 1942-01-02 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

    1942/01-02 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: STORY Magazine. Volume XX, Number 93. January-February 1942.

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

  • “The Sun Shines in August” by Rebecca Merrick
  • “The Windfall” by Erskine Caldwell
  • “The Coming of Age” by Clare Jaynes
  • “McEwen’s Affair” by Frank Sisk
  • “Portrait of Allison” by Elliott Arnold
  • “Cherokee Blood” by Ed Bell
  • “Winter Canaries” by W.E. Fishbaugh

    • 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

    • 1942-03-04 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

    1942/03-04 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: STORY Magazine. Volume XX, Number 94. March-April 1942.

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

  • “Hostage” by Bernard Doret
  • “Superstition Farm” by Perry Stowe
  • “Builders of the Burma Road” by Pai Ping-Chei
  • “Icarus Over Key West” by George Weller
  • “This Lucky Man, Our Friend” by Eli Waldron
  • “The Enchanted” by Laurette MacDuffie Knight
  • “Where the Sun Died” by Jerome and Abe Selman

    • 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

    • 1942-05-06 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

    1942/05-06 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: STORY Magazine. Volume XX, Number 95. May-June 1942.

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

  • “Courageous” by Willard Price
  • “The Four-Faced God” by Warren Beck
  • “The Battle of the Loire” by Vladimir Pozner
  • “Delta Autumn” by William Faulkner
  • “Eclipse” by Ethel Turner
  • “Two Sparrows and One Ear” by Florence Wheeler McGehee
  • “Steno Shoots Boss Shoots Steno” by Aben Kandel
  • “Mr. Nab” by Ferenc Molnar
  • “The Gardenia: by Eric Schaal

    • 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

    • 1942-07-08 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

    1942/07-08 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: STORY Magazine. Volume XXI, Number 96. July-August 1942.

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

  • “A Letter to My Love” by Gerald Breckenridge
  • “Ohaiyo, Kentucky” by Leane Zugsmith
  • “Departure Deferred” by I.V. Morris
  • “Swamp Maze” by Peirson Ricks
  • “Pecos Bill and the Willful Coyote” by William C. White
  • “Me and James Joyce” by T.K. Brown III
  • “About a Picnic” by George Panetta
  • “Lucy” by Teresa Foley
  • “Farewell to Jack” by Yuri Suhl
  • “Waiting” by Mark Harris

    • 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

    • 1942-09-10 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

    1942/09-10 — ITEM DESCRIPTION: STORY Magazine. Volume XXI, Number 97. September-October 1942.

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

  • “The Dream of Angelo Zara” by Guido D’Agostino
  • “Even the Dead Shall Rise” by Margaret Rhodes Peattie
  • “The Long Debut of Lois Taggett” by J.D. Salinger This appears to be 23-year-old Salinger’s fifth published short story. The contributors section notes Salinger: J.D. Salinger writes, “I’m in the Officers, First Sergeants, and Instructors Prep School of the Signal Corps, determined to get that ole message through. …The men in my tent–though a damn nice bunch–are always eating oranges or listening to quiz programs, and I haven’t written a line since my re-classification and induction.” But he is one of many of “our boys” who are doing an important job and we are rooting for all of them. He is a native New Yorker, twenty-three years old, and his first story, “The Young Folks,” appeared in the March-April 1940 issue of STORY”
  • “This Healthy Life” by Vicki Baum
  • “The Bear, the Red Ox, Cupid and Mr. Zorn” by Else Torge Dougall
  • “Fair Lady” by Peggy von der Goltz
  • “Free Surprise Gift” by Frances Eisenberg
  • “Not Much Time” by Virginia Lee Warren
  • “By the Dawn’s Early Light” by Elick Moll