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...There (Sun. 6:30 p.m., CBS) Walter Cronkite reports the Hatfield-McCoy feud...
...political stability. He was tremendously impressed with U.S. State Department careerists in the countries he visited, came to believe that they are far more capable of administering economic aid than the Foreign Operations Administration. He was perhaps proudest of his success in soothing, at least temporarily, the Central American feud between Nicaragua and Costa Rica...
...Karajan, 46, began his career as a pianist, became conductor of a small opera house (at Ulm) when he was 21. Today he is regarded as one of the world's finest conductors, but personally one of the most difficult. In 1939 he began a running musical feud with Furtwangler. In 1948, when both men were conducting the Vienna Philharmonic, Von Karajan left when he lost a battle over rehearsal rights. Later, he also abandoned Salzburg to his older rival, took refuge in Bayreuth, which he left in turn after he insisted on changing some of Wagner...
Here at home, the War Production Board will erupt as Charles E. (Electric Charlie) Wilson and Donald M. Nelson bring their long-standing feud to a head. And Sidney J. Weinberg, WPB vice-chairman assigned to the job of making peace between them, will also quit in disgust. Charlie will be pleased to know that Governor Thomas E. Dewey will conduct a stirring campaign as the Republican nominee for President...
Dirty Pictures. Last week the feud erupted again before a Washington hearing of the Federal Communications Commission, considering applications for a Boston TV franchise. One of the applicants was the Boston Herald-Traveler's station WHDH; another was Massachusetts Bay Telecasters. in which Capp is both a small stockholder (less than 2%) and co-chairman of the proposed station's Public Affairs Committee. Lawyers for WHDH challenged Capp's fitness on the ground that he draws dirty pictures: therefore, he and his associates (including Novelist J. P. Marquand and Atlantic Monthly Editor Edward Weeks) should...