[PW] Story Possibly in late 1932 LIBERTY magazine

[Dennis Lien]

At 12:56 PM 6/24/2008, you wrote:

> > >Checked the Maclean's just now, "The Isle of Long Ago" starts with a
> > >paragraph about a couple on a ship called _The Roumania_. Nothing about
> > >Rafferty's Luck on the first page (or in the first section to a quick
> > >skim).
> >
> >
> > Sigh; that was my last best hope.  But many thanks for checking.
>
>A previous poster mentioned an anthology found on abebooks -- did that not
>pan out?
>
>--
>chuk


I already knew about the (all-reprint) anthology cited, which was the
source of the apparently-incorrect ascription of copyright to a McCALL
magazine in the first place.  Wollheim, who edited the anthology, was
usually pretty reliable in identifying original sources, but he seems
to have made some sort of mistake on this one, since we've exhausted
that McCALL-corporation-published magazines of the period.  I had guessed
that Wollheim's mistake may have been a mental slip for another
"McSOMETHING" magazine, so tried LIBERTY (published by Macfadden and
known to publish a lot of Grimshaw) and MACLEAN'S (known to have
published at least one Grimshaw), but both of those have also now been
shot down.  Of course, it's possible Wollheim's error was in the date
rather than the company/title, or it's possible the whole thing was
completely wrong (he got his index cards or whatever misfiled).

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

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