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with them. It turned out that she also had some of Miss Roseboro's flair for picking a good story that wasn't as yet well-written, but was a good story. She taught many a person to write by going over their manuscript. Miss Roseboro used to say, and Sonia would agree with her, “Every American has one good story in him. The thing to do is to get him to tell that story. They can't all tell many stories, but there is one good story lying around everywhere.” The art of editing a story magazine would be to drag that story out of perfectly unknown people. There's a great deal in it as some of these first books show that are coming along now. Sometimes they are first and onlys. Miss Roseboro was keen on that. So was Sonia Levine.

Sonia Levine later married Carl Hovey, who was later editor of Metropolitan Magazine. She sort of merged her life with that magazine and Carl. They later went to the Coast.

Another person who was functioning in the literary world in those days was Theodore Dreiser. He was an unknowable person. You couldn't know Theodore Dreiser. He was editor of the Delineator. That's a very ancient magazine. It goes almost as far back as Godey's Lady's Book. It was the Butterick Pattern Company's outlet. Just about that time they'd stopped having a fashion magazine and decided to make