Word: feuds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...geologist who once headed the University of Delaware and later the University of Vermont, Carlson has done his best to give his students a better education. But though he has accomplished much, he has been constantly frustrated by the chronic feud between his trustees and the State Board of Regents. Worse still is a dilemma that has faced S.U.N.Y. all along: Should it try to be a real university, or merely continue to offer fringe programs, while leaving the real job of education to the state's private campuses...
...Publisher Kamin, is its owners' duty "to see that apathy does not creep into Lima." Said he: "We have sought to build a paper that the community can be proud of. We are here to do a good job of publishing a newspaper, not to carry on a feud...
...Capp at last getting his comeuppance? What did he think of the Saunders-Ernst treatment? Said he: "Unpardonable slander. Something disgraceful, humiliating." Then Capp took his tongue out of his cheek and exposed the feud (sob!) as a hoax. He and Saunders cooked it up last fall in Washington at a meeting of the cartooning clan ("a pretty damn dull profession"). Rapp will go on taking raps for a few weeks until, says Capp, Saunders "casually reveals at the end that I'm not a monster." Confirmed Cartoonist Saunders: "Rapp just follows the public concept of Capp, an egotistical...
...well conditioned to subdue tigers barehanded as the 15 who work for Hearst. Of that little band, none has reigned longer or more despotically than the Los Angeles Examiner's asp-tongued James H. (for Hugh) Richardson. In a 20-year running feud with slow-moving staffers and half the officialdom of Los Angeles, one-eyed Jimmy Richardson (he lost his right eye in a slingshot accident at the age of seven) has driven a long parade of newsmen to pressagentry. the bottle-or to fame. He also bullied and blarneyed his way to more newsbeats than any other...
...wholeheartedly endorse your reference to the competition between Ed Sullivan and myself as "TV's most boring feud"-particularly since there is no such feud. What is boring, of course, is the endless talk and press comment about such issues...