Word: drew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...play Twilight Bar (a flop in the U.S., it never reached Broadway) for a Fans performance. He refuses to identify himself as a Zionist, says he doesn't approve of terrorism but can understand the Jews' bitterness and despair. To write Thieves in the Night he drew on two years of banging around in the Near East (20 years ago) as a correspondent for a German paper. He took out Palestine citizenship then, spent nine months in Jewish communes in Palestine last year as a refresher. Says he: "It is idiotic to compare British politics in Palestine with...
...SHARE OF NIGHT (380 pp.]-Drew Middleton-Viking...
...successful Personal History in 1935, neither he nor many of his successors has succeeded notably with that difficult formula: the journalistic catchall which mixes autobiographical adventure, eyewitnessing of disaster, punditry, prophecy and philosophy. Some have seemed too wise after the event; many have not seemed wise enough before it. Drew Middleton's Our Share of Night is a welcome exception. It is written with rare honesty and simplicity. Best of all is his reason for writing, stated not in a self-conscious foreword but in the last sentence of the book: "Now perhaps I can forget...
With his squad at completely full strength for the first time since long before the opening game, Harlow put his second and third elevens through a tough scrimmage under Stadium lights to conclude yesterday's session. The "B" team's line drew praise for its blocking efforts, and guards Jim Feinberg and Bob Drennan were especially prominent...
...Varsity two touchdowns to one. Play was interesting for the spectators, finishing under the Stadium lights, but was not particularly gratifying for the coaching staff. The blocking and cohesion were far from good. Bill Henry, who was in at quarterback for both teams during the fracas, drew Coach Dick Harlow's praise for his signal-calling...