Word: mayfield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Molly? As they have every morning for the past four years, Denverites lapped up Molly's flip and saucy column with their breakfast coffee. More than anything else, "Dear Mrs. Mayfield" has helped step up the New's circulation from a doddering 40,000 to more than 86,000, challenging enough to keep the Denver Post (circ. 192,991) on its toes. Besides dispensing free advice, Molly collects snapping turtles, pianos and goldfish from people who don't want them for those who do. During the war she gathered diaper pins for G.I. wives, once collected...
...Mayfield swung back, and last week her reply was the talk of Denver: "I suspect your difficulty is that you haven't had the chance of meeting the kind of people who do speak well. . . . For, coming to Denver as you obviously have, with a prejudice against people here, you are not likely to be welcomed with open arms. It's such a shame you had to come here at all. Perhaps your husband can discover oil on Broadway or Park Avenue and you can go back...
Finally one of them turned on the new Denverites. "Mrs. Molly Mayfield," whose breezy lovelorn column is the top feature in Scripps-Howard's tabloid Rocky Mountain News, had received a chiding note from the wife of an Eastern oilman. "When Denver women speak," it sniffed, "it sounds to me like the grinding of a buzz saw. Their voices are harsh and grating. They send shivers up my spine. Even those who have gone to such good Eastern schools as Bryn Mawr, Wellesley, Smith, etc., speak in an absolutely rude and unrefined manner...
PARTY LINE-Louise Baker-Whittlesey House ($2.50). Nostalgic glimpses of Mayfield, Calif, a generation ago show how Blossom Tramlin, the town menace, becomes the town heroine; how Miss Elmira stops a run on the bank by general blackmail. Soap opera sentiment and humor...
...appalling fact dawned recently on Principal Leonard Mayfield of the Med ford, Ore. high school - there had not been a single fist fight .among his 350 little gentlemen in a year. A husky old wrestler himself, Principal Mayfield realistically reflected that many of his boys would soon have to know how to kill other boys. By last week Medford High's physical edu cation program had been radically revised. The new course, called "Personal Combat," is ranger-style training in high school. Says Mayfield: "It's gang-fighting, that's what...