The best American short stories, 1945 :  and the yearbook of the American short story / 
edited by Martha Foley. 
 - Boston :  Houghton Mifflin Co.,  1945. 
 - xiii, 397 p. ;  21 cm. 
<br/><br/>How the devil came down Division Street / Nelson Algren -- The first fish / Warren Beck -- Crime passionnel / Louis Bromfield -- My brother Osong's career in politics / Carlos Bulosan -- Harvest / Mary Deasy -- Burial in the desert / Edward Fenton -- The light of morning / Morton Fineman -- Understand what I mean? / Bill Gerry -- The test / Brendan Gill -- Be heavy / Richard Hagopian -- It never happened / Emily Hahn -- The Czech dog / W.G. Hardy -- Fever flower / Josephine Johnson -- Poor everybody / Robert McLaughlin -- Don't scrub off these names / John McNulty -- The animals' fair / Warren Miller -- Papa, mama, and economics / George Panetta -- On the way to somewhere else / Joseph Stanley Pennell -- Call a solemn assembly / Ruth Portugal -- The owl that kept winking / Theodore Pratt -- The hand that fed me / Isaac Rosenfeld -- A war marriage / Donna Rowell -- The mourners / Gladys Schmitt -- Gunners' passage / Irwin Shaw -- The wedding: Beacon Hill / Jean Stafford -- Alabama sketches / Ruby Pickens Tartt -- Rain in the heart / Peter Taylor -- Cass Mastern's wedding ring / Robert Penn Warren -- First day finish / Jessamyn West -- This is a love story / Leane Zugsmith -- A ship to Tarshish / William Zukerman. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American fiction--20th century.<br/>Short stories, American.<br/>Canadian fiction--20th century.<br/>Short stories, Canadian.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS643  / .B47 1945