Word: jed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...receive plenty of tickets for nearly all of the social organization that want to send their boys to one game each year," Jed Dreifus '50, co-chairman of the PBH Social Service Committee, said last night...
Biggest of the committees, the Social Service Committee, will be seeking to improve its work in 43 local settlement houses and boys' clubs. Activities there range from basketball, wrestling, and carpentry to debating, dramatics, and science. Co-chairmen John c. Pittenger '51 and Jed Dreifus '50 hope to supply the settlement houses with well over 200 men this year...
...Traitor (by Herman Wouk; produced by Jed Harris) turns something very much in the news into something very much of the theater. It concerns Professor Allen Carr (Wesley Addy), a brilliant young atomic scientist who feels that the only hope for peace is for the U.S. to share its atomic secrets with the U.S.S.R. Then, reasons the professor, war would prove annihilating for both sides. Carr has begun to pass information along to Communist agents when a U.S. Naval Intelligence squad catches him redhanded. Instead of arresting him as a traitor, they successfully appeal to him as a patriot...
Once it really starts moving, The Traitor is a tense piece of theater, paced and sharpened in Jed Harris' best Broadway manner. It is a vivid spy melodrama in which everything seems a little more ominous for being so much of the moment. It refurbishes old situations with such new gadgets as Geiger counters; it endows standard roles with new wrinkles. The Russian spy (suavely played by John Wengraf) is a cynical worldling whose motive is money, not Marx; the chief intelligence officer (winningly played by Lee Tracy) is a humorously rueful fellow who has a horror of muffing...
...once again take along his orphaned, sea-struck grandson (Dean Stockwell) or leave him ashore to catch up on his book learnin'? In Boston-trained Dan Lunceford (Richard Widmark) he finds a plot-making compromise. Lunceford, he figures, has enough schooling to keep both a ship and Little Jed's education afloat. After a slow, landlubberly beginning, the three of them, with Dan as first mate, set sail for the whaling grounds and a few stern lessons in character-building...