Word: feuded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne's biggest hero is her predecessor, the late Richard J. Daley, who launched her political career. But affection for the father does not carry over to the son. State Senator Richard M. Daley, who is currently Byrne's biggest enemy. The sulfurous feud threatens to shatter the still formidable Democratic political machine that the elder Daley so painstakingly put together...
...Like one of those electric lint brushes, Dallas' industrious writers have picked up a little fuzz from most of their betters, all of their equals, and one or two of their inferiors. Whir, buzz. Here's a thread from Shakespeare's voluminous mantle: that old blood feud betwen the Montagues and the Capulets, or, in this case, the Ewings and the Barneses. Hum, grind. There's half of Tennessee Williams' back pocket. Can't you hear that cat scratching on the hot tin roof over Big Daddy's bedroom...
...Vellucci's running feud with Harvard is famous; he is currently hot on the trail of Harvard biomedical researchers, demanding that low level radioactive waste be controlled...
...since Fred Allen and Jack Benny went at each other on the radio has broadcasting seen such a feud. But whereas Allen and Benny were friends who fought for laughs, Johnny Carson and NBC President Fred Silverman are in earnest. The outcome of their battle will affect both men's careers and the immediate future of an ailing NBC. Last week they took their dispute to a Los Angeles judge, who must decide whether Carson has a valid contract with the network...
DIED. William S. Todman, 62, pioneering radio and TV producer who, with his partner Mark Goodson, pioneered the game show, creating TV's current smash hit Family Feud and What's My Line?, which ran for 17½ years; following heart surgery; in New York City. In addition to employing 90 television researchers in the search for convincing impostors for To Tell the Truth and offbeat confessors for I've Got a Secret, the "Gold Dust Twins" built a communications empire that once included 17 newspapers...