July 1, 1953
Mrs. Emily Gebhardt
Mrs. Emily Gebhardt lived in a garden apartment in midtown Manhattan, West Side. The front room faced North onto the street just below street level. It was here that Mrs. […]
April 1, 1953
The Life You Save May Be Your Own
The old woman and her daughter were sitting on their porch when Mr. Shiftlet came up their road for the first time. The old woman slid to the edge of […]
January 1, 1953
Pictures from an Institution: Book I
[This is the opening of a fantastic novel. During the year we expect to print some of the episodes. —Editors.] Half of the Campus was designed by Bottom the Weaver, […]
October 1, 1952
The Unsayable
He had planned to be writing on the board as the young men came into the classroom. He was prepared to listen to them complain, but not to watch them. […]
July 1, 1952
The Mothers
Before the mirror of the pale-pink room-and-bath to which she and Mrs. Mack had been assigned, Mrs. Endor was setting on her hat. A loop of hair pulled loose; skillfully […]
July 1, 1952
The Fabulous Twenty-Dollar Bill
I never liked him, said Professor Robbins to his wife, “and now I know very well why I don’t like him.” “He has had a hard time,” said his wife […]
July 1, 1952
The Fugue of the Fig Tree
There were two tall, broad houses of brick and white stucco, nondescript beyond these details, sharing a lawn of nearly three acres. One of these houses was the home of […]
July 1, 1952
Two Mortuary Sermons
My lord, it is a great art to die well, and to be learnt by men in health. —JEREMY TAYLOR I. SKIP’S DEATH Things, as Eddie would have said, were […]
October 1, 1951
News about Miss Prince
She was a woman whom life had cruelly misplaced. When I knew her—I say “knew her,” though we never exchanged more than a few words during that year I saw […]
October 1, 1951
The Divorce
Of all the family, Wesley liked his sister, Alice, the best. His parents were so busy being the occupants of the Tuttle home place, and therefore subject to constant attention […]
July 1, 1951
In the Monastery¹
(Synopsis of previous events: We have been fighting the enemy a very long time (so long, there is hardly anyone left alive who can remember the outbreak of the war) […]
July 1, 1951
The Invisible Bridges
The high-school auditorium blazed with lights and the school band in its blue and gold uniforms had just dashingly finished up “America” when Paul, coming in rather out of breath […]