Word: leon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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EXODUS (626 pp.)-Leon Uris-Doubleday...
...Author Leon (Battle Cry) Uris, 34, spent two years and traveled 50,000 miles getting the facts for his story, and he relates it in a serviceable, exclamatory prose. But he has written a novel as well as history, and no amount of research can help him in his fiction. His hero, Ari Ben Canaan, has all the two-dimensional subtlety of a sheriff in a TV western; his heroine, Gentile Kitty Fremont, is so often petty-minded and petulant that some readers may suspect Author Uris of a bias against shiksas. Despite its partisan trimmings, Exodus in large measure...
...LEON W. GILLASPIE Birmingham
...Flanders Fields, by Leon Wolff. An absorbing account of one of the bloodiest bungles of World...
Blood pledged to the semi-annual Phillips Brooks House drive "should exceed last fall's total," Leon Rothenberg '60, co-chairman of the drive, commented yesterday. Although the campaign has not been completed, over 1000 pints have been promised...