Word: burnett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Story started as the private venture of two U. S. writers who were offended by the fact that no solvent publisher ran a magazine exclusively for "the best short stories." Bearded Whit Burnett and his pleasant, bespectacled wife, Martha Foley, were correspondents for the New York Sun in Vienna when they ran off 75 copies of Story's first issue on a rented mimeograph machine. The contents were by themselves and friends, including Kay Boyle and Oliver Gossman. This smudged, amateur attempt set off a literary explosion, is now worth $500 per copy as a curiosity. When they lost...
...Crugers, N. Y., in the black night, Burnett A. Ward, 40, railroadman, his wife and son were waked by a hammering at the door. Ward leaned out a window and saw a naked man. "What do you want?" Ward shouted. "I want food. I want a drink. I want cigarets," the madman shouted. "You ought to be ashamed of yourself," said Ward, "knocking at people's houses with no clothes on. Go and put on your clothes." "They're in the woods," the man screamed...
...less than the Tribune's. Started 15 years ago as an organ of the Non-Partisan League, the Star was at first rambunctiously radical, has lately grown respectable and New Dealish. It went through a receivership from which it was extricated by the late Albert Burnett Frizzell. Last week the Frizzell estate sold controlling interest in the Star to Gardner Cowles & sons, publishers of the fatly prosperous Des Moines Register & Tribune. Reputed price...
General Outdoor Advertising Co, President Burnett W. Robbins...
First desperate case to get the Bettman treatment was a Portland, Ore. motor car dealer named Roy Burnett. Ten days after being extensively burned about the head in an accident, Mr. Burnett shaved, in 42 days left the hospital. Dr. Bettman keeps in his office pieces of the leather he peeled from Mr. Burnett's burns...