The best American short stories, 1950 : and the yearbook of the American short story / edited by Martha Foley.

Where did yesterday go? / Charles Angoff -- Shadow of evil / James Aswell -- The wild flower / Sanora Babb -- Edge of doom / arren Beck -- A sermon by Doctor Pep. / Saul Bellow -- Death under the hawthornes /Peggy Bennett -- Pastor Dowe at Tacate / Paul Bowles -- Jishin / Robert Christopher -- The NRACP / George P. Elliott -- The fear of innocence / Leslie A. Fiedler -- The pigeon / Ralph Gustafson -- The mouse / Marianne Hauser -- The author / Josephine W. Johnson -- The artist / Ralph Kaplan -- Hail brother and farewell / Sylvan Karchmer -- Comes a day / Speed Lamkin -- The glass wall / Victoria Lincoln -- The world outside / Howard Maier -- The cape / Esther McCoy -- My brother's second funeral / Edward Newhouse -- Take her up tenderly / Hoke Norris -- Bright and morning / Glidden Parker -- The old acrobat and the Ruined City / Clay Putman -- Not with our fathers / Abraham Rothberg -- The promise / Ramona Stewart -- A master time / James Still -- The hired man / Joan Strong -- A wife of Nashville / Peter Taylor.