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...lost, Brown complained of a "cynical deal engineered by a reactionary darling hell-bent for the White House." But Pat Brown, described by a friend as "a great big Teddy bear who doesn't want to grow claws," has never shown any liking for a knockdown drag-out fight. And that was the only kind of fight anyone could expect from Republican Bill Knowland, with his immense California prestige, his boiler-room energy and his powerful friends...
...G.O.P. State Central Committee sent California Republicans a letter bemoaning "impending Republican Party suicide," suggesting that Bill Knowland remove himself as a gubernatorial possibility. Knowland "cannot possibly muster the broad popular support which is necessary to win the governorship," the letter said, and if he insists on a knockdown, drag-out primary with Knight, "the resultant Democratic swing well might take not only the governorship but the other major constitutional posts, the U.S. Senatorship, the majority of the Congressional delegation and the Legislature...
...third time in eight years, Cambridge's mayoralty election has become a knock-down, drag-out fight between warring factions in the City Council. The issue is not likely to be resolved at this afternoon's meeting, four councillors agreed last night...
...feinting. He won All-America honorable mention. U.C.L.A.'s heavy-duty ballcarrier was another Negro, talented Kenny Washington, who made the All-America first team. He and Jackie had no particular love for each other, but both deny persistent campus rumors that they once had a knockdown, drag-out fight in a dark alley. "T'ain't so," says Jackie, "I'm not dumb enough to have a fight with Kenny...
...Guild had singled out Dave Stern for a knockdown, drag-out fight. As a self-proclaimed friend of labor, Stern might more easily be embarrassed into signing than Philadelphia's two other press lords. The Guild had made identical demands (including $100 a week for experienced newsmen) on Walter Annenberg, head of the Inquirer. Annenberg, like Stern, had turned them down-but the Guild let Annenberg alone, and struck Stern's Record, and his Camden Courier and Post, across the Delaware River...