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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...
...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...
...wife cannot give him, he settles down to a life of intellectual stagnation and sexual frustration as Superintendent of Schools in the small neighboring town of Geneva. Dorothy, the simple, beautiful model-daughter, makes a highly successful early marriage and edges into her comfortable niche in society, promising to blossom into a typically good mother and matron. Dark, mystic, ever dissatisfied Margaret ends her wild search for freedom and beauty as the mistress of a man who refuses to give up his wife and family. Bunny, the youngest and most completely free of them all, marries a fiery Communist...
...Crimson submits this Interview as an example to Interviewers throughout the country. This distinguished writer has shown by her Insight into the character of her subject that she is a budding blossom in the journalistic world. The Crimson welcomes to its columns the star of "Roberta...