Word: blossomed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...name, the editors won't even look at your manuscript. . . . Why, there's better stuff rejected every day, than what gets into print. . . ." As to every editor who ever bought a piece of fiction, that chronic complaint of obscure authors came again & again to Editor Sumner Newton Blossom of American Magazine. He knew it to be nonsense- or nearly so. He knew that the 30,000 unsolicited stories that arrive annually at his offices were treated is fairly as possible. They went in turn to a bright young woman, to an elderly cultured man, to a youthful fiction...
Last week Editor Blossom pronounced the experiment a success. In the first month the black seal of an accepted story was broken to admit Borden Chase, a hydraulic engineer. Soon others were unmasked: a Chicago newshawk using the name Kimball Herrick; a Montana professor named Brassil Fitzgerald; Allen Vaughan Elston, previously unknown outside of the pulp magazines. And more than one professional with a front cover name received a rejection slip, unaware that his story had been judged and discarded solely on merit...
Elated by the discovery of new talent, Editor Blossom decided to continue the "sealed fiction" process for short stories. But serials, as before, will be acquired only through advance order and negotiation...
...record for sailplanes (TIME, Oct. 8). Newscameramen in an accompanying plane watched Eaton's glider cut loose, prepared to photograph it gliding earthward. Suddenly the glider dipped sharply, flipped over on its back. Instruments tumbled out of it, then Pilot Eaton. The photographers waited for his parachute to blossom out. It never did. Pilot Eaton fell 1,200 ft. to his death in three feet of water on the bay's edge...
...last month, Miss Roche predicted the coming of a new era of security and well-being for workers throughout the land. Last fortnight President Roosevelt appointed her to his advisory council on legislation to that end-unemployment, old age, health insurance (see p.11). If & when those New Deal flowers blossom, they could logically be planted in the Treasury Department. And in or out of the Department it would be hard to find a more sympathetic, experienced and able gardener for them than Josephine Roche...