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Show FIRST PRIZE WINNER Announcement that a story entitled en-titled "The Wrath of a Man" has been awarded the $5,000.00 cash first prize in its recent mauscrlpt contest was made today by True Story Magazine. Selected as the best among the thousands of manuscripts entered for the prize money this story, set down from actual experience, is characterized aa.one of the most searching stories of human relationships rela-tionships ever to come before the publishers' staff of readers. Revealed Re-vealed by a writer who remains anonymous for protection of the living people who walk through his story, "The Wrath of a Man" describes de-scribes in unsparing fashion the retribution re-tribution visited on a man who took the law Into his own bands to avenge a dishonor which later proved only imaginary. Seldom, if ever, has a more poignant, poig-nant, more appealing, . more thoroughly thor-oughly human document found its way Into print combining as it does the unquenchable flame of youthful youth-ful romance and the hard realism of which the Russian school of w riters Is so fond . Only In real life could such a story have been .written and only a contest offering nn unusually enticing cash prize could have brought about its revelation. reve-lation. , Two other prize winning Btorles, each of which has been awarded a $1.(XK100 cash prize, also appears In this issue. These are "Harem Slaves," and "Strange Road to Happiness." The former story Is a sensational expose of Turkish utrocltles by a girl who lived through them and escaped to tell! "Strange Road to Happiness" reveals re-veals the brave struggle of a World War widow to find her place In the post-war scheme of things. |