Girl Sleuth (48 page)

“Generally writers, eager for”:
Hannibal Towle, “The League for the Preservation of Prose,” n.d. or newspaper name. George Benson file,
Toledo Blade
Library.

“He was a gregarious soul”:
“George Benson,”
Toledo Times,
March 1, 1959.

“The new Dana book”:
Harriet Adams to Edna Squier, August 10, 1951, SSR/NYPL, box 46.

“Only ten feet”:
Melanie Rehak telephone interview with Bill Kennedy, August 4, 2003.

“I feel quite stale”:
Tyler May, p. 503.

“They expect us”:
Harriet Adams to Edna Squier, February 23, 1950, SSR/NYPL, box 46.

“Last fall”:
Harriet Adams to Edna Squier, February 7, 1951, SSR/NYPL, box 46.

“The attitude over at G&D”:
Harriet Adams to Edna Squier, February 28, 1951, SSR/NYPL, box 46.

“We have had so much trouble”:
Harriet Adams to Edna Squier, September 23, 1952, SSR/NYPL, box 46.

“Apparently you expect”:
Edna Squier to Harriet Adams, October 1, 1952, SSR/NYPL, box 46.

“Traveled to New York”:
Mildred Benson to Harriet Adams, March 8, 1952, SSR/NYPL, box 33.

“Reference sheets”:
n.d. (early 1950s), SSR/NYPL, box 239.

“Whether we do yarns about”:
“Tom, Jr.,”
New Yorker,
March 20, 1954.

“By the end of the decade”:
Heiferman/Kismaric, p. 84.

“The publication that”:
Heiferman/Kismaric, p. 109.

“Even the proudest”:
“The Grinch & Co.,”
Time,
December 23, 1957, p. 74.

“Translated and sold overseas”:
For the information in this section, I am indebted to Lea Shangraw Fox's comprehensive Web site about foreign editions of Nancy Drew,
www.nancydrewworld.com
.

“I am constantly”:
Harriet Adams to Edna Squier, October 8, 1957, SSR/NYPL, box 46.

“As I sat there”:
Hugh Juergens to Harriet Adams and Andrew Svenson, March 10, 1955, SSR/NYPL, box 46.

“Better watch the office”:
Edna Squier to Harriet Adams, March 7, 1951, SSR/NYPL, box 46.

“In your recent letter”:
Harriet Adams to Edna Squier, November 28, 1956, SSR/NYPL, box 46.

“Tried to buy her sister out”:
Stanley L. Gedney Jr. to Edna Squier, July 29, 1957, SSR/NYPL, box 46.

“Offhand I would say”:
John O'Connor to Harriet Adams, August 26, 1958, SSR/NYPL, box 39.

“The ‘here and now'”:
“Dorothy the Librarian,”
Life,
February 16, 1959.

“Very thoroughly, to see”:
Harriet Adams to Anne Hagan, April 19, 1948, SSR/NYPL, box 37.

“Thank you for your”:
Harriet Adams to Michael Chanalis, March 4, 1948, SSR/NYPL, box 19.

“The Syndicate is a challenge”:
Harriet Adams to Edna Squier, April 8, 1957, SSR/NYPL, box 46.

“It had never occurred to me”:
Jean Diefenbach to Grosset & Dunlap, February 15, 1961, SSR/NYPL, box 37.

“All of a sudden”:
Harriet Adams to Edna Squier, March 30, 1959, SSR/NYPL, box 46.

“The series will be about”:
Andrew Svenson to Edna Squier, September 29, 1965, SSR/NYPL, box 49.

“The publisher could find no”:
Andrew Svenson to Mary Kay Stark, January 14, 1978, SSR/NYPL box 49.

“The prolonged suspense”:
Heiferman/Kismaric, p. 111.

“The blue convertible”:
All excerpts from
The Secret of the Old Clock
in this section come from Carolyn Keene,
The Secret of the Old Clock
(New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1959).

“I think an editor/You say Nancy”:
Harriet Adams to Anne Hagan, February 15, 1961, SSR/NYPL, box 37.

“We are expanding”:
Harriet Adams to Jim Lawrence, April 5, 1961, SSR/NYPL, box 41.

“Our company rarely accepts”:
Harriet Adams to unknown, August 18, 1969, SSR/NYPL, box 32.

“Harriet had her own”:
Deborah Felder, “Nancy Drew: Then and Now,”
Publishers Weekly,
May 30, 1985.

“My idea is to have”:
Harriet Adams to Anne Hagan, August 11, 1966, SSR/NYPL, box 38.

“I wish you would dress”:
Harriet Adams to Martha Leder, July 13, 1966, SSR/NYPL, box 38.

“Though it is not”:
Harriet Adams to Martha Leder, February 17, 1966, SSR/NYPL, box 36.

“I do not like”:
Harriet Adams to Martha Leder, January 24, 1968, SSR/NYPL, box 36.

“I presently am”:
Mildred Benson to Frank Paluka, July 7, 1964, MAWB/IWA, box 1.

“Richard and Pat Nixon's visit”:
Mildred Benson, “Pat Worth Waiting for, Station Crowd Indicates,”
Toledo Times,
n.d., memory book of Mildred Augustine, 1922–1928, MAWB/IWA, box 2.

“Radiation shelters”:
Mildred Benson, “Cooking in a Radiation Shelter Found Easy Once You've Mastered Tricks,”
Toledo Times,
September 18, 1961.

“Much of my early work”:
Mildred Benson to Frank Paluka, July 7, 1964, MAWB/IWA, box 1.

 

CHAPTER TWELVE: NANCY IN THE AGE OF AQUARIUS

“In 1960”:
Betty Friedan,
The Feminine Mystique
(1963; repr., New York: W. W. Norton, 2001), pp. 22, 25.

“Though total sales”:
Manuel Siwek to Harriet Adams (telegram), March 25, 1963, SSR/NYPL, box 40.

“Sales of series in the United States”:
Manuel Siwek to Harriet Adams, March 23, 1965, SSR/NYPL, box 44.

“The pages of
Mademoiselle”:
“The Lives and Times of Nancy Drew,”
Mademoiselle,
July 1964, pp. 28–39.

“Again, may I say”:
Harriet Adams to Leo Lerman, May 12, 1964, and June 30, 1964, SSR/NYPL, box 42.

“It is my hope”:
“Harriet Stratemeyer (Mrs. Russell V. Adams),”
Wellesley College Record,
1964.

“That ghostly dancer”:
All excerpts from
The Clue of the Dancing Puppet
in this section come from Carolyn Keene,
The Clue of the Dancing Puppet
(New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1962).

“Perfectly ordinary looking”:
Tyler May, pp. 526–27.

“That same year/first acknowledgment/ardently determined”:
William H. Chafe, “The Road to Equality: 1962-Today,” in
No Small Courage: A History of Women in the United States,
ed. Nancy F. Cott (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 526–27, 535–37, 545 (hereafter cited as Chafe).

“In 1963 a poster”:
Betty Friedan book tour poster, October 29, 1962, reprinted in
No Small Courage: A History of Women in the United States,
ed. Nancy F. Cott (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), p. 539.

“The percentage of married women”:
Chafe, p. 534.

“The final ingredient/macho radicalism”:
Chafe, pp. 551–52.

“Integration, not separation”:
Chafe, p. 555.

“
off our backs”:
September 30, 1970, cover reprinted in
No Small Courage: A History of Women in the United States,
ed. Nancy F. Cott (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), p. 560.

“When you have to top”:
Grosset & Dunlap sales flyer, SSR/NYPL, box 39.

“Titian-haired/Remember how”:
Nancy Moss, “Nancy Drew: Her Popularity with Young Readers Is No Mystery,”
Chicago Tribune,
January 23, 1966.

“The dauntless, bewitching”:
Arthur Prager, “The Secret of Nancy Drew—Pushing Forty and Still Going Strong,”
Saturday Review,
January 25, 1969 (hereafter cited as Prager).

“Your inference”:
Harriet Adams to Anne Hagan, October 19, 1960, SSR/NYPL, box 37.

“Mr. Karig never was”:
Harriet Adams to Bob Moore, January 7, 1965, SSR/NYPL, box 39.

“Needless to say”:
Harriet Adams to William Morris, December 8, 1966, SSR/NYPL, box 32.

“I am also enclosing”:
Harriet Adams to Frieda and Sam Tannenbaum, October 21, 1966, SSR/NYPL, box 33.

“It will give you an idea”:
Harriet Adams to Betty Marks, December 19, 1966, SSR/NYPL, box 39.

“Decided she was going to”:
Melanie Rehak interview with Nancy Axelrad, Indianapolis, IN, June 14, 2003.

“‘This granny
'”: “This Granny Masterminds the Thrills and Spills,”
Star Johannesburg
(South Africa), July 6, 1968.

“In a piece”:
Judy Klemesrud, “100 Books—and Not a Hippie in Them,”
New York Times,
April 4, 1968.

“He owned”:
partnership agreement, January 1, 1961, SSP/Beinecke, box 1, folder 9.

“One secretary”:
Carlette Winslow, “Alias Carolyn Keene,”
Suburban Life,
February 1968.

“Most of us have learned to read”:
Mike McGrady, “The East Orange Gold Mine Mystery,”
New York Newsday,
June 29, 1968.

“The Bobbsey Twins in Sexville?”:
Advertisement for
Billy & Betty,
a novel by Twiggs Jameson, SSR/NYPL, box 43.

“Apparently there is a rock-ribbed”:
Prager.

“A pilot out barnstorming”:
Mildred Benson, “First Ride in a Jenny, Led My Way to Flight,”
Toledo Blade,
December 30, 1970.

“Touch the throttle”:
Mildred Benson, “First Solo Flight—It's a Wonderful Feeling,”
Toledo Times,
August 29, 1966.

“A three-day dugout canoe”:
Mildred Benson, “A Woman Dares the Jungle,”
Cleveland Plain Dealer,
November 26, 1967.

“The quaint world/Carolyn Keene was alive and well”:
Geoffrey S. Lapin, “Carolyn Keene, pseud.,”
Yellowback Library,
July/August 1983.

“The Artful Ways of Millie”:
James A. Treloar, “The Artful Ways of Millie,”
Detroit News,
August 13, 1971.

“Acrobatic airplane”:
Mildred Benson, “Test Flight Reveals New Businessman Thrills,”
Toledo Times,
June 16, 1969.

“Women these days”:
Mildred Benson, “Women Don Coveralls, Work on Planes,”
Toledo Times,
March 23, 1968.

“
Ms
.,
the first national
”: Information about the creation and history of
Ms.
comes from
www.msmagazine.com/about.asp
and Chafe.

“By the mid-70s”:
Chafe, p. 563.

“I believe in freedom”:
Susan Stamberg interview with Mildred Benson, Weekend Edition,
All Things Considered,
National Public Radio, April 10, 1993.

“‘She's Studying to Be'”:
Mildred Benson, “She's Studying to Be Aggressive,”
Toledo Times,
July 26, 1969.

“Women of Toledo”:
Mildred Benson, “Are Toledo Gals Militant?”
Toledo Times,
August 24, 1970.

“For all her nay-saying”:
Mildred Benson, “Male Psyches Shaken, Millie Reports as She Lands New Broadside,”
Toledo Times,
October 28, 1970.

“Are you hurting your daughter”:
Ann Aliasberg, “Are You Hurting Your Daughter without Knowing It?”
Family Circle,
February 1971.

“Psychologists say that”:
John T. Cunningham, “Where the Bobbseys Live,”
Newark News,
March 23, 1973.

“She's an atypical”:
Julia Kagan, “Nancy Drew—18 Going on 50,”
McCall's,
July 1973.

“Nancy Drew Circle”:
Caroline Drewes, “The Modern Vibes of Nancy Drew,”
San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle,
February 11, 1973.

“Is it possible”:
Rose DeWolf, “The REAL Mystery Behind Nancy Drew,”
Philadelphia Bulletin Sunday Magazine,
January 13, 1974.

“
A DETECTIVE NEEDS ENERGY
”: Carolyn Keene,
The Nancy Drew Cookbook: Clues to Good Cooking
(New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1977), p. 18.

“There are some books”:
Leo McConnell, “Book-Lookin',” n.d. (June or July 1973), newspaper unknown, SSR/NYPL, box 239.

“People are always asking me”:
Georgia Smith, “For Nancy Drew, Cooking Is No Mystery Now,”
New York Daily News,
August 3, 1973.

“A first-person essay”:
Jane Ginsburg, “And Then There Is Good Old Nancy Drew,”
Ms.,
January 1974.

“On cookies”:
memo from Andrew Svenson to Harriet Adams, November 18, 1970, SSR/NYPL, box 47.

“I think
THE NANCY DREW COOKBOOK
”: memo from Eric Svenson to the Stratemeyer Syndicate, April 30, 1973, SSR/NYPL, box 32.

“Every reader”:
Carolyn Keene,
The Nancy Drew Sleuth Book: Clues to Good Sleuthing
(New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1979).

 

CHAPTER THIRTEEN: BECOMING THE GIRL DETECTIVE

“I feel you overstepped”:
Harriet Adams to Anne Hagan, January 27, 1972, SSR/NYPL, box 38.

“Anne, are your remarks”:
Harriet Adams to Anne Hagan, September 19, 1973, SSR/NYPL, box 38.

“I must tell you quite frankly”:
Harriet Adams to Anne Hagan, May 24, 1973, SSR/NYPL, box 38.

“
National Lampoon”:
”The Case of the Missing Heiress,”
National Lampoon,
June 1974, p. 66.

“A mock interview with an aged Nancy”:
Rosalyn Drexler, “The Real Nancy Drew,”
New York Times Magazine,
October 19, 1975.

“Belittling and reversing/I did not tell all”:
“Missing the Mark,” Letters,
New York Times Magazine,
November 23, 1975.