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Distinctions are in order--the first being the distinction between the blood feuder's demand for revenge, atrocity for atrocity, and Elie Wiesel's "Remember!" Night and day. The first wants murder. The second seeks to prevent murder...
...Santa Monica, Calif. Lolly, as intimates knew her, broke into movies as a scriptwriter, eventually moved on to write a daily Hollywood column for the Hearst newspapers. At her peak of influence in the '30s and '40s, the column appeared in 1,200 newspapers worldwide. A celebrated feuder, most notably with Orson Welles over his film Citizen Kane, which she said ridiculed William Randolph Hearst, she was also a tireless reporter with sharp instincts for a story and an early-warning radar for scandal. Two of her biggest exposés were the Douglas Fairbanks-Mary Pickford divorce...
With the inborn shrewdness of the feuder, Bracken Lee has carefully selected his ground. He will run as an Independent, out of reach of disapproving Republicans at the state convention and the primary election, but accessible to Democrats of a mind to stop Watkins by stepping across the party boundary at primary time to vote for Watkins' competition. Both parties, said Lee impartially in announcing his independent candidacy, "stand for and support the same policy of high tax, waste and giveaway programs...
...Washington saying of the past decade is that the city is littered with the bones of men who have opposed Cordell Hull; that the old Tennessean feuder works quietly and cautiously but he always gets his man. That man is anyone who tries to run any part of foreign policy while the State Department is still around. Ranked by protocol as No. 1 Cabinet officer, the Secretary of State normally bosses all U.S. dealings with foreign governments. His corps of deft protocol artists has never allowed a mere war agency to forget...
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