Life — September 16, 1915 — page 12: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Life Magazine Short Story Contest Page This page presents two short stories submitted to Life's fiction contest. "The Man Who Told" by John Cutter concerns a murder mystery aboard a trans-Atlantic liner—a wealthy New Yorker dies from a stab wound, and a crucial clue (a stiletto) goes missing until being located years later. "The Arm at Gravelotte" by William Athwood Wolf, Jr. depicts a WWI scene where an elderly German village patriarch, Hans Schmidt, has his house commandeered as Great Headquarters Staff during the war. The story focuses on the military occupation and Schmidt's experience witnessing the movement of troops and the general wartime operations around him. Both are straightforward fiction entries, not political satire.