Newspaperman Writes Best-Seller in Spare Time

By BARTEE HAILE This Week in Texas History 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…