Contents

The girls in their summer dresses by Irwin Shaw

Over the river and through the wood by John O'Hara

The secret life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber

The net by Robert M. Coates

Home atmosphere by Sally Benson

A toast to Captain Jerk by Russell Maloney

Kroy Wen by Kay Boyle

Nice girl by Sherwood Anderson

H*YMAN KAPLAN, samaritan by Leonard Q. Ross

Prelude to reunion by Oliver La Farge

A small day by Erskine Caldwell

Midsummer by Nancy Hale

The door by E.B. White

Tourist home by Benedict Thielen

Arrangement in black and white by Dorothy Parker

The courtship of Milton Barker by Wolcott Gibbs

Homecoming by William Maxwell

Only the dead know Brooklyn by Thomas Wolfe

The works by Nathan Asch

Do you like it here? by John O'Hara

Conversation piece by Louise Bogan

The fury by Robert M. Coates

Venetian perspective by Janet Flanner

Ping-pong by St. Clair McKelway

The three veterans by Leane Zugsmith

Wet Saturday by John Collier

Soldiers of the republic by Dorothy Parker

Houseparty by Walter Bernstein

All the years of her life by Morley Callaghan

The explorers by Jerome Weidman

The old lady by Thyra Samter Winslow

A matter of pride by Christopher La Farge

Love in the snow by Joel Sayre. Profession : housewife by Sally Benson

The great manta by Edwin Corle

My sister Frances by Emily Hahn

Accident near Charlottesburg by William A. Krauss

In honor of their daughter by John Mosher

The test by Angelica Gibbs

Goodbye, Shirley Temple by Joseph Mitchell

Honors and awards by James Reid Parker

Pastoral at Mr. Piper's by Mollie Panter-Downes

Man and woman by Erskine Caldwell

Main currents of American thought by Irwin Shaw

The knife by Brendan Gill

The pelican's shadow by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Incident on a street corner by Albert Maltz

Such a pretty day by Dawn Powell

Portrait of ladies by Mark Shorer

Parochial school by Paul Horgan

I am waiting by Christopher Isherwood

A letter from the Bronx by Arthur Kober

Little woman by Sally Benson

The apostate by George Milburn

Sailor off the Bremen by Irwin Shaw

Barmecide's feast by Marc Connelly

Fish story by Donald Moffat

I've got an anchor on my chest by R.H. Newman

The happiest days by John Cheever

Black boy by Kay Boyle

The nice Judge Trowbridge by Richard Lockridge

Love in Brooklyn by Daniel Fuchs

The great-grandmother by Nancy Hale

Chutzbah by Jerome Weidman

Mr. Palmer's party by Tess Slesinger

A different world by Robert M. Coates

Are we leaving tomorrow? by John O'Hara

The getaway by Dorothy Thomas.