Word: feuded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feud's first showdown came in 1916 when Henry Cabot Lodge narrowly defeated John F. ("Honey Fitz") Fitzgerald for the Senate by 33,000 votes. In a battle of grandsons, John Fitzgerald Kennedy restored family honor in 1952 by knocking Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. out of his Senate seat by 70,000 votes. In a 1960 rematch of sorts, Democratic Presidential Candidate Kennedy took Massachusetts by 510,000 votes against the G.O.P. ticket carrying the name of Vice-Presidential Candidate Lodge. But in a state where politicians nurse their grudges like old wine, even these family jousts...
...spots are only an appetizer. Next on the program is a ripsnorting public feud between Gibbs and the Piel brothers. Sound trucks, skywriters and posters will plaster New York with the cabalistic exhortation "B. B. B. & H." (for "Bring Back Bert and Harry"). Next month Gibbs will take on the brothers in three radio debates. Predictably raucous, Bert Piel will charge: "That pantywaist Gibbs doesn't even like beer. If you put an olive in it, he might drink...
...Death of Bessie Smith, Albee is the most talked-about young American playwright. The most promising young American playwright is probably Jack Richardson (The Prodigal, Gallows Humor), whose new play Lorenzo will star Alfred Drake in the story of a roving actor who finds himself involved in a blood feud between two towns and discovers that he cannot remain morally uncommitted (February). Novelist...
...Their feud became so fierce that Roosevelt tried to funnel patronage through Byrd enemies in Virginia. Says Byrd: "Not controlling patronage turned out to be a damn good thing for me, because the Depression was still on and everybody was wanting a job. There weren't enough to hand...
Death of a Highbrow, by Frank Swinnerton. England's foremost man of letters relives a literary feud with a dead rival and decides the man was not so much his enemy as his friend...