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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1970
Page
25
Leon Uris moves from Aspen to Broadway with Ari a musical adaptation of Exodus. He supplies adaptation and most lyrics and, with Walter Smith, composes the score while promising a measured pace and no overnight success.
Composer Ari Ben- Shlomo and novelist Leon Uris recount clashes over Exodus rights and lyrics. Uris recalls power struggles with producers and screen rights, while Alan Jay Lerner and Otto Preminger influenced the project. Rehearsals planned for mid August with a 10 week Baltimore tour ahead of Broadway debut near New Year 1971.
The fragment mentions a hero, Hebrew youths or refugees and a British detention center on Cyprus. It references Uri and Israel, implying a clash over a novel’s title and identity involving a refugee group and a hero.
A critical look at Thomas P. Neill’s Modern Europe from 1789 to de Gaulle. The reviewer notes brisk narration, some factual shortcuts, and occasional misstatements while praising light shed on fascism, bombings, and postwar recovery. Maps are missing and editing could improve clarity.
A TS Eliot letter praising his Presidential Medal of Freedom was removed from the White House without Lyndon B. Johnson's consent. FBI agents later recovered the item from autograph dealer Charles Hamilton who had sold it to Frederick L. Holborn for 225 dollars.
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