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...Chicago Sun led its editorial page with this laconic editorial one day last week. It was a soft answer to the dirtiest punch the Tribune's incredible Bertie McCormick had yet thrown in his bitter feud with the Sim's fairdealing Marshall Field. The Tribune, gloating over Ralph Ingersoll's "shamed" enlistment in the Army (TIME, Aug. 3), had blathered...
...Order in France last week had all the orderliness of a jungle. The persistent feud between the German army and Adolf Hitler's Schutzstaffel (Elite Guard) had reached well across the German border into France. Having been given full police power in the Reich and occupied territories, the Schutzstaffel plastered Paris with posters proclaiming new cruelties to the Jews. Whereupon men in German army uniforms went through the streets and tore many of the posters down...
...walk with his first picture, Citizen Kane (TIME, March 17, 1941), 1941's most provocative and exciting movie. Ambersons is not another Citizen Kane, but it is good enough to remove Director Welles for keeps from the novice or one-picture-prodigy class, and to further the feud...
Besides belaboring commercials and Mutual, Morgan is now carrying on a feud with Hearst, gently calls many a stray character "William Randolph." As a result, the Hearst New York Journal & American forgets to list his programs...
...Luckiest hanging was that of Will Purvis, 17-year-old Mississippian, convicted of shooting a neighbor in a Bible-belt feud. Hundreds watched the body fall, then tumble to the ground as the noose slipped. When the crowd cried: "Hang him!" the official doctor climbed on the gallows, asked for a show of hands from those who really wanted to see the boy die. Nobody raised his hand. Years later another man confessed the murder...