Her Little Gadget For The New Yorker

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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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