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Akron's troubles stemmed ostensibly from deadlocked contract negotiations. But they were also compounded of more inflammatory stuff-old resentments, a bitter intra-union feud between United Rubber Workers' President Sherman Dalrymple (who wanted no strike) and locals which had repudiated the no-strike pledge...
...long after Bill Terry stepped into McGraw's shoes, he made a classic contribution to baseball's best-paying feud. Asked what he thought about the Dodgers, Terry cracked: "The Dodgers? Are they still in the league?" Terry's Giants won three pennants before Brooklyn took the play away from them...
...Brooklyn won the pennant and the Giants got a new manager: Melvin Thomas Ott, the club's slugging right fielder with a peculiar but potent cocked-leg stand. The feud was and still is in flower, but hard as they tried, the Flatbush faithful could not hate stumpy, boyish Mel Ott. The Dodgers have outclassed the Giants in recent years, but they still respect Enemy Agent...
After 76 days of riding on the same trains, living at the same hotels, thrashing out their three-cushion billiard feud in 13 cities, Champion Welker Cochran and Challenger Willie Hoppe were sick & tired of each other. Throughout their ivory marathon, the score had stayed uncannily close, and toward the end the two masters fell to quarreling like poolroom sharpies. In San Francisco last week they finally reached the end of the line. Cochran first erased Hoppe's slim, eight-point lead, then built up a 48-point margin to keep his world's championship with a grand...
Loud-mouthed Kenneth McKellar had been roaring against businesslike, liberal-minded TVAman Lilienthal for several years, had carried on a patronage feud with him with all the passion of a home-state mountaineer. But last week McKellar discovered that, despite his new power in the Senate, he had been boxed in. Good friend Truman had already enhanced the McKellar prestige by inviting him to attend Cabinet meetings; the Senator from Tennessee could ill afford a last-ditch patronage row at the very start of the Truman Administration...