Word: mayfield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Scarsdale, N.Y., Nathaniel H. Leff '59, of Dunster House and Brookline, Stephen A. Lerner '59, of Lowell House and Chicago, III., Robert W. LeVine '59, of Winthrop House and Newton Center, Robert T. Lewit '59, of Adams House and Orange, N.J., Robert W. McCarley '59, of Kirkland House and Mayfield, Ky., Gerald L. Mackler '59, of Lowell House and West Hartford, Ct., Lee B. McTurnan '59, of Winthrop House and Bloomington, III., and Richard M. Moskowitz '59, of Eliot House and Clifton...
...LONG NIGHT, by Julian Mayfield (156 pp.; Vanguard; $3.50), puts a ten-year-old Negro boy through a Harlem wringer during one long night and shows him at dawn emotionally dry behind the ears. The kid's name is Frederick Brown, but he prefers to be called by his gang name: Steely. He is a 2nd lieutenant in the Junior Comanche Raiders, reads Superman comics and numbers Jackie Robinson among his heroes...
...steals a bicycle, planning to sell it, it is in turn stolen from him by a rival gang. When he decides to throw away the last of his father's carefully instilled ideals and roll a drunk, Steely's childish anguish reaches its pitch-and Author Mayfield reaches for the help of the long hand of coincidence. Up to that point. The Long Night is a simple, touching story that fuses the night world of Harlem and the frenzied world of a child's fear...
WILLIAM H. MAYFIELD...
Nobody had good words for Tito, but the visit did have its defenders. In Mayfield, Ky., the Rev. Frank Cayce asked his Episcopal congregation: "Why shouldn't Eisenhower have Saud and Tito as guests? Didn't Christ associate with lepers, whores and publicans?" Editorialized the Denver Post: "A lot of Americans probably never have understood the importance of Tito as a fracture in the monolithic structure of international Communism. If so, the fault lies with our policy strategists, who have not explained the facts of the Communist struggle for power for general consumption...