Word: feuds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only obstacle now in the way: a French court's recognition of Prince Aly's Las Vegas divorce (TIME, Feb. 9, 1953) from sultry Cinemactress Rita Hayworth, who last week settled a nine-month feud with Columbia Pictures. Rita was expected to go before cameras in a cinemusical version of Pal Joey (instead of going Biblical, as once planned, in a movie version of Thomas Mann's Joseph and His Brothers...
Since last August, when he shut down Colombia's leading newspaper, El Tiempo, Strongman-President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla has been carrying on a clumsy feud with the country's traditionally free-swinging press. Last week Rojas discovered that he had stumbled again. His latest press-muzzling maneuver, an attempt to fine two of the country's largest Liberal dailies (El Espectador and El Correo) into oppositionless silence, had backfired. Rojas found himself faced by a "Freedom of the Press Fund," supported by public subscription, to pay the penalties, should he decide to levy similar fines...
Pierre Poujade, the election's only real victor, has already predicted that the moribund new assembly "will not last." Even if he is right, no inquest into its demise will be able to pin the ultimate blame on him. The feud between Mendes-France and Edgar Faure split the Radical Socialist Party, rent the Assembly's alliance of moderates, and paved the way for the extremists' victory. As a result, any constructive legislation by the new assembly will require that the center groups, already almost hopelessly divided among themselves, vote nearly unanimously together. The French battle has gone...
...even his feud with the "damn bankers" caused Railroader Bob Young more trouble than his fight with a onetime associate named Randolph Phillips. Last week the Young-Phillips battle reached such a pitch that Young cried out in exasperation: "It's criminal. There ought to be a way to make Phillips pay for all the trouble." Grinned Phillips: "We stopped Young...
...defied, but he seemed to do so out of a passionate fondness for America that made even the tiniest fault seem an outrage. He called himself a "critic of culture." He was actually a challenge. "We have fought at Arques," he recently told his readers after describing his bitter feud with McCarthyism. "Where were...