Word: braved
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ahead of the field thus far was bustling little Screenplays, Inc., which dusted off Arthur Laurents' play Home of the Brave (changing its hero from a Jew to a Negro) and put it on a sound stage under heavy secrecy with virtually unknown actors. The picture is already finished...
Basketball was the dark spot of the afternoon as the visitors from Providence completely outclassed the two 'Cliffe squads, 38 to 12 and 34 to 18. Marry Brandt put up a brave but futile fight by dropping in all six field goals for the Annex in the first game...
That, to the West, fighting for survival, is the most important point in an important new book. Paul McGuire's There's Freedom for the Brave (William Morrow Co., $4) is a powerful statement of the thesis that the West cannot defeat the evils of Communism without conquering the weakness and the evils in its own body & soul. The book has two parts and two aims. In the author's words, the first is to show the world "What's Up," the second, "What's to Do." Author McGuire is considerably more successful...
...only thing that can save the West is a supreme effort of will: "However the story ends, our business is to resist the bastard fatalism which now infects us ... Freedom is not found in fatalism and passivity. Freedom is for men of good will. Freedom is for the brave...
...offered Joe a third interest in a new promotional firm to be called the International Boxing Club. It sounded good to Joe. Last week, the three partners met again at Norris' home in Coral Gables, Fla. and came to a gentlemen's agreement. Despite Mike Jacobs' brave words and innate wariness, it looked like Wirtz & Co. had stolen a long lead. After nearly 35 years, control of heavyweight boxing might shift from Manhattan to the Midwest and there might be heavyweight title fights in Cleveland and Chicago for a change. But nobody knew how long it would...