--_John Hay_.
YOUNG SON--"What is luck, father?"
FATHER--"Luck, my son, is something that enables another fellow to
succeed where we have failed."
MAGAZINES
_History of the Magazine Story_
July 27, 1914--Author finishes it.
Aug. 3, 1914--Rewrites, giving incidental war slant.
May 9, 1915--Rewrites; hero rescues heroine from torpedoed liner.
Apr. 7, 1917--Rewrites; hero enlists; villain, German spy.
Nov. 13, 1918--Rewrites; denouement, allied entrance into Berlin;
heroine, Red Cross nurse.
Nov. 13, 1918--Rewrites; climax, homecoming from overseas.
Aug. 15, 1919--War fiction going stale; goes back to original story,
retaining only German villain.
Jan. 1, 1923--Rewrites; takes out German villain.
Apr. 1, 1934--Author in old people's home; sells original story to
Cozy Hearth; editor features it as "charming romance of life before
the war."
EDITOR (surveying summer landscape)--"Season of mists and mellow
fruitfulness, close bosom friend of the maturing sun!"
FRIEND--"But, I say, that was written about autumn, wasn't it?"
EDITOR--"Yes, yes, I know--but you must remember that we always go to
press four months in advance!"
It was the first of January when a stranger entered the offices of
Pushup's Monthly Magazine.
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