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...SHARE OF NIGHT (380 pp.]-Drew Middleton-Viking...
...coverage of Dunkirk and Dieppe was so good that Raymond Daniell, chief of the Times's London Bureau, hired him away. Daniell sent him to North Africa, where Middleton's analysis of the tangled Darlan-Giraud crisis was from the first surprisingly mature and shrewd. His up-front combat stories showed a reportorial eye, a literary...
...York-born Drew Middleton, 32, goes to Russia with few illusions. He regards the Moscow assignment as "something every reporter should do once at least." He has agreed to buck it for the next two years...
Good Eye, Good Ear. In the slow-moving Times hierarchy, Drew Middleton has shot up fast. Syracuse University's School of Journalism refused to grant him his degree because he couldn't type fast enough (he got the degree later when he became a famous son). After two years of newspaper work in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., he went to A.P. as a sportswriter in 1937. He asked to be a foreign correspondent, but was sent to England in 1939-to cover sports. When the war came, he was the youngest (25) reporter accredited to the British Expeditionary Force...
...Middleton's aggressiveness will be a change from Atkinson's urbane inquisitiveness. Colleagues are curious to see whether Middleton will check his shoulder chip at the Russian frontier. Says National Correspondent James ("Scotty") Reston, himself a Times topnotcher: "Moscow will be good for his temper. It will teach him patience or kill...