[4]In 1952, he interviewed Whittaker Chambers at the publication of his memoir Witness: From the casual talk, he went on to a point that one heard raised a good deal.
Late that Saturday night, after the party, Thomas showed up at his favorite tavern, the White Horse, a dark-paneled, homey bar on the western outskirts of Greenwich Village.
Later, he went on to another bar, then retired to his hotel room for a warm beer and whisky nightcap with a friend.
Three days and several parties later, New York Times Critic Harvey Breit telephoned him at his hotel.
[8] Breit adapted several novels for the stage, including Budd Schulberg's The Disenchanted and R. K. Narayan's The Guide.
In 1968, Time magazine reported:On Broadway The Guide is a showcase for Pakistani Actor Zia Mohyeddin, who gives an electric performance as a jailbird mistaken for a holy man by the people of an Indian village.
The play itself, adapted by Harvey Breit and Patricia Rinehart from a novel by R. K. Narayan, is disappointingly thin in emotion and thick in talk.
[13]Breit was married first to writer and editor Alice S. Morris and then in 1955 to poet and playwright Patricia Rinehart.
Auden, Jacques Barzun, Ludwig Bemelmans, Margaret Bourke-White, Erskine Caldwell, Whittaker Chambers, Madge Evans, Dudley Fitts, Arthur Kober, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Harold Rome, Budd Schulberg, Lionel Trilling, and Glenway Westcott.