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Word: mayfield (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...production has many merits: Rouben Mamoulian's swift, pictorial staging, some of Kurt Weill's music, Todd Duncan as the father, Julian Mayfield as the son, ten-year-old Herbert Coleman bringing down the house with Big Mole. But with half as much, Lost in the Stars might have been twice as good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical Play in Manhattan, Nov. 7, 1949 | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...good Senator first wanted to build his college at the town of Mayfield but insisted that Mayfield become dry. When the citizens objected, he moved the site to the neighboring hamlet of Pale alto, which obligingly passed an anti-liquor law. By moving the local railroad station from Mayfield to Pale Alto, the former was easily reduced to a suburb of the latter. Pale Alto is still a dry town, and a group of bars do a wonderful business just across the town line...

Author: By Edward J. Back, | Title: Stanford Cultivates ' School Spirit' and Rallies In Drive to Become 'The Harvard of The West' | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...bookstore in Mayfield, Ky. put a tag on a framed picture of the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Aftermath | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...worried reader of Denver's Rocky Mountain News wrote to Lovelorn Columnist Molly Mayfield that she and her husband quarreled because he was a Democrat and she a Republican. What should she do? Advised Columnist Mayfield: find a Henry Wallace man and invite him over. "You both could join in heaping coals on the Wallace follower. In this way you and your husband might be closely drawn together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Sep. 22, 1947 | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

...Molly Mayfield's identity is an office secret. Most Newsmen guess (though she sweetly denies it) that slender, five-foot-two Frances Foster, the Southern-accented wife of News Editor Jack Foster is Molly. Mrs. Foster is an old Denverite. She has lived there six years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: From Molly | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

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