Word: dander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Venice for the International Film Festival, Rossellini shrugged off the missiles with the air of a matador dodging a flying pop bottle. He was stalking bigger game. Charging that RKO had ruined his Stromboli, the film that got Ed Johnson's dander up in the first place, Rossellini withdrew it from the Venice competition and pressed a whopping damage suit against the company. RKO, said Rossellini, had destroyed Stromboli by bad cutting and had damaged its box-office appeal by "improper" advertising (sample: "Raging Island . . . Raging Passions"). Cried Rossellini: "I feel like I'm living in the fable...
Ohio's solid, slow-moving Representative Clarence Brown did what some of his colleagues had been itching to do: he marched the Democrats' brash young Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. off to the woodshed. What got Brown's Republican dander up was Junior's charge that Brown had reneged on a pledge to support the controversial FEPC bill (TIME, Feb. 6). There had been no such pledge, said Brown, as Mr. Roosevelt might have known if he spent more time on the job and less time gallivanting around Manhattan...