Wounded War veteran . . . broke . . . robs store . . . is sentenced to serve six to ten years in a Georgia chain gang . . . escapes . . . reforms . . . becomes successful Chicago magazine editor ... is forced to marry a woman 14 years his senior for fear she will betray him ... is betrayed by her because of jealousy over a younger, prettier woman. . . .
Such a story made good copy last May for William Randolph Hearst's Chicago American. War Veteran Robert Elliott Burns, editor of a magazine called Greater