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March 10, 1933
That little gadget I wrote sold
to the New Yorker for
seventy dollars...
with this encouragement
in the far-too-easy-for-me
light touch I believe I may change–see what I have,
inasmuch as it seems to be
superior of its slight kind–
and be opportunistic
from now on.
The Diaries of Dawn Powell
1931-1965
ABSTRACT: Barbs and Sylvia, two young married woman
who leave their babies with a girl, and hitch hike to New York.
When they get there, Barbs hasn't enough money to go to the movies,
so they go on a shopping tour.
Sylvia buys a bathing suit for her baby with her money,
and Barbs snatches a rubber dolphin float from the counter
and shoves it down her front.
A man follows them, and tries to get them
interested in becoming professional shop-lifters.
They get out of his car, after giving him phony names,
and get a hitch back on a truck.
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According to her biographer,
Dawn Powell's first story sold
to New Yorker Magazine
was accepted in 1933
but not published
until 1939
Dawn Powell Sunday, Monday, and Always |
However, three other "gadgets"
written by Dawn Powell
were featured in
the magazine
in 1933.
Such A Pretty Day is one
of twenty-two stories
included in this book.
Suffice it to say, Ms. Powell
was golly gosh good
with gadgetry.
New Yorker Magazine June 24, 1939 |
The New Yorker web site
offers non-subscribers
only an abstract of
Such A Pretty Day.
The GoodFather of Math
has zero subscribers.
Therefore, I hereby offer
only an abstract cover
of the New Yorker
with such pretty
gadgetry.
$70 in 1933
would be worth
$1,245.30 today.
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Footnotes
The next Dawn Powell page is here.
The next New Yorker page is there.
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I don't understand defacing the original art.
ReplyDeleteThe New Yorker's abstract of the Powell story...
Deleteinspired me to do the same thing to the cover of
the issue containing the story.