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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

    • 1937-12 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 1939-07-08 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 1939-05-06 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 1933-12 Whit Burnett’s Story Magazine Contents

    1933/12 — STORY Magazine. Volume III, Number 17. December 1933.

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

  • “Winter” by Dorothy McCleary
  • “The Pattern That Gulls Weave” by William March
  • “Pioneers! O Pioneers!” by Daniel Fuchs
  • “Home Is Where You Hang Your Childhood” by Leane Zugsmith
  • “Christmas Greetings” by Isaac Bein
  • “I Get So I Can’t Go On” by Sherwood Anderson
  • “Three Delta Romances” by E.P. O’Donnell

  • “Emigrant Into Night” by Eugene Jolas
  • “Wait A Minute, Don’t Go” by Russell MacCallum
  • “Rendezvous” by Mary Heaton Vorse
  • Index to Story Numbers 11-17

    • 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

    • 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

    • 1934-03 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

    • 1934-04 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

    • 1934-05 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

    • 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