Word: feuds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...next three years Allen had three shows. It was in 1935, with Town Hall Tonight, that Fred really got on the radio beam. Not long after, he latched on to the biggest stunt of his career: his feud with Jack Benny. One night he assured a guest on his program, a twelve-year-old violinist, that he played the Flight of the Bumble Bee better than Benny played it after 40 years of practicing. Showman Benny knew a cue when he heard one. For ten years radio's biggest running gag has been kept alive without a single backstage...
...surprise and a pleasure to report that sometime in between the bouts in the local theatrical feud which has been raging on and off the public stage for the past few months the Harvard Dramatic Club has been able to put together an altogether excellent production of a play that Boston should have seen before 1947, Clifford Odets' "Waiting for Lefty." Perhaps competition is healthy; perhaps the unusual glow of publicity attending all dramatic events has spurred the members of the HDC on to greater things; but whatever the cause, they have managed to put on the Sanders stage what...
...Dorsey parents, Sara Allgood and Arthur Shields turn empty roles into sincere performances, and brothers Jimmy and Tommy manage to impersonate themselves without noticeable strain. But there is no mention of the expensive Frank Sinatra, who once sang for Tommy (1939-42). And the famed Dorsey feud, which absorbs a good deal of the story, finally becomes as tedious to sit in on as any other family quarrel. Moreover, the picture is not as distinguished musically as might be expected. One thing the show does have, which most such movies lack: a feeling for the raffish professionalism of commercial jazzmen...
Things also went wrong with Hummon's hopes for settlement of his feud with Lieutenant Governor M. E. Thompson over their respective claims to the governorship. In Rome, one Judge Claude Porter, hearing a suit brought by Thompson to get records from the state parole board, ruled that Hummon had no right to office...
Inescapable Implication. Hoxha's feud with Britain went beyond diplomatic skirmishing. Last May the British cruisers Orion and Superb were cruising in the Strait of Corfu, a 2-to 15-mile-wide corridor between Albania and the Greek island of Corfu. An Albanian shore battery opened fire, missed. Last month the Royal Navy destroyers Saumarez and Volage, cruising in the same Strait, ran into mines, were crippled. Casualties totaled 38 dead, 50 injured. British indignation was heated. Said a high-ranking Royal Navy officer: "There's no difference between this and bombing the British Home Fleet at Scapa...