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Sirs: For a heinous-looking human being, the record was held until the Dec. 22 issue of TIME by "The Angel" (wrestler) when Admiral Yamamoto topped him badly on front cover. GORMAN L. BURNETT Lynchburg...
...short fiction who never wrote a short story himself, O'Brien died in February, aged 50, at his home in Buckinghamshire, England. Thus The Best Short Stories, 1941 is his last anthology. The series will continue under the editorship of Martha Foley, co-editor (with Husband Whit Burnett) of Story, which was long a favorite hunting ground of O'Brien's for new writers and new ideas of short story technique...
Stokes, a 60-year-old house which in its time has published Frances Hodgson Burnett, John Masefield, Gertrude Atherton, Robert 0. Peary, General Pershing, Louis Bromfield, will publish under its own imprint for a while. It brings with it such current authors as Ellery Queen, John Erskine, Eugene Lyons and a strong juvenile list...
...rise of Jackpot Riley reads like a W. R. Burnett novel. He saw Shanghai first in the '20s, a sailor off a U.S. Yangtze Patrol sloop, drinking in the dives along "Blood Alley." When he finished his hitch in the Navy he went back to the U.S., soon landed in the Oklahoma State penitentiary under the name of Johnny Becker, with a 25-year sentence for attempted highjacking. Two years later he escaped from jail, headed again for Shanghai...
...Pilgrim Hawk is as good as anyone need hope. It is a superbly turned specimen of that long-short form which Story Editor Whit Burnett likes to call The Novella. "Simple" only in profile and in the manner of its telling, the tale has symbolic and psychological structures that are no simpler than the internal cross-flickerings of a poem...