The Vidor High School twirlers and Brigadettes, were practicing at Croak Field Monday afternoon in preparation for the 2022 season opening versus Silsbee Friday at Pirate Stadium. Photo by Randall Luker
On Aug. 28, 1959 a book reviewer had nothing but the highest praise for a newspaperman’s first novel: “It may be a long time before a better one comes along.”
Allen Stuart Drury was born in Houston during the First World War and grew up in a small California town. After earning a degree in journalism from Stanford, the cub reporter’s first job was on a weekly paper, where in 1940 he won a national …
