Word: dray
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...original, Victor McLaglen played the informer as a wounded bull. Mayfield portrays him as a dray horse, faithfully clopping to the fadeout. The Informer was consistently Irish. If Up Tight's cast is Negro, the script is in straight blackface, with such lines as "Nonviolence is a self-defeating mother." Its bogus climaxes are reminiscent of the '30s' group-theater lyricism, as when Tank wails at a smeltery, "You noisy beautiful bastard, remember me?", or when he roars, "The city is killing me ... it's killing both of us." Because Up Tight was filmed...
...that flinches at the diesel blat of a bus might recoil as much from the clang-rattle-crash of the old trolley. The whine of rubber tires replaces the bang and screech of unsprung cartwheels on cobblestones; the backfire supplants the ringing hooves of dray horses...
...Cleveland firehouse, quit school in the seventh grade to work as a $3-a-week copy boy. At 20, he was city editor of the Press, the oldest paper in the Scripps-Howard chain (founded in 1878). Thirty years Vail's senior, he still works like a dray horse, turning up at 6 every morning and averaging five hours of sleep a night. "We have a lot of young people on this paper,'' he says. "They keep their hot breath against my neck and the soles of their shoes against my back...
...footnote to your excellent account of the life of A. C. Gilbert, Yale 1908. Walter Dray and I had pole-vaulted against Gilbert for the last time at Franklin Field in 1908 at the Olympic tryouts. Dray held the world's record at the time. Gilbert established a new world's record and took from us about four gold medals that hung on that event...