[PW] Story Possibly in late 1932 LIBERTY magazine

[Dennis Lien]

At 10:48 AM 6/21/2008, you wrote:
>At 07:30 PM 6/20/2008, Shari wrote:
> >Dennis:
> >
> >Beatrice Grimshaw wrote quite a few stories for LIBERTY, but I did not
> >find any with a title similar to "The Cave." Unfortunately, the 2-vol.
> >published index of LIBERTY appears to have sprouted feet and went AWOL,
> >and nobody seems to know where it is.
>
>I did a lot of searching, including issues of the Chicago Tribune--
>she was a syndicated columnist of theirs, and excerpts from her work
>appeared there often.  Nothing with that title was found, sorry to
>say.  I am wondering if "The Cave" was a chapter in one of her books
>from that period.  Has anyone checked the books she wrote in the
>early to mid 30s to see if one of them has such a chapter in it?  It
>was common back then for magazines to excerpt chapters from
>best-selling authors.


Yes, I'm pretty sure Mike (my colleague) has eliminated chunks of
books.  "The Cave" is a fantasy -- the cave contains the ghosts of
dinosaurs -- and while she had a few other fantasy short stories,
I don't believe any of her novels contained fantasy elements.

The latest hot idea was that "McCall's" might have been an error
for MacLeans, e.g. the Canadian MACLEANS magazine.  She had at
least one story there in period, maybe more, so I'll check that
our next week.

Thanks for checking...

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // d-lien at umn.edu