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...bringing millions of Government dollars into his State, Tennessee's aging, knob-nosed, spoils-loving Senator Kenneth Douglas McKellar loves TVA. But he hates TVA's hard-working Director David E. Lilienthal. Last week, torn between love and hate, he turned his Valley grudge into a mountain feud...
McKellar pounded his amendment through. But this week he faced another stiff fight in the House-and in waging his feud he had let his popularity in TVA-loving Tennessee scrape bottom. Said the Chattanooga Times: "If the whole thing could be forgotten and everyone could go on with the war, such adjustments as may be needed in the TVA system . . . can be made at a time when the Japanese and Germans are not at our throats...
Cissie Patterson's feud with Pearson & Allen was more complex and fiercer than the others in which she often engages. She has close family and professional ties with Columnist Drew Pearson. He is her ex-son-in-law and father of her only granddaughter Ellen, now 15, in whose favor Cissie was said to have drawn a will leaving her fortune (about $40,000,000) and the Times-Herald...
...informal but extremely serious feud is raging between Lowell and Eliot Houses over the beauties of their respective courtyards in spring time. It all started when an unofficial sampling of Bellboys revealed that they considered their courtyard to be "the beauty spot of Cambridge." Elephant supporters rose in revolt to protest, only to be met by a Lowell statement that their courtyard contains a dogwood, four lilacs, and a cherry. Latest word from "The Latter-Day Eden" is that they expect to counter the Lowell claim by pointing out that their courtyard has Merriman ad a large tree...
Dartmouth's feud with the University of New Hampshire, at its height during the meets at Hanover and Middlebury, was overshadowed by the Crimson coup. Townsend, in fourth place, was high man for the Wildcats...