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...Frankensteen, were stars in the drama of renascent U. S. Labor and in the crown of John L. Lewis' C.I.O. Since then nearly half of U.A.W.'s 400,000 members have been laid off and U.A.W.'s high command has been riven by a bitter political feud. If John L. Lewis could do nothing about the first difficulty, he could try to mend the second. So last week he welcomed both parties, which had split half-&-half on U.A.W.'s 24-man executive board, to lay their troubles before him in Washington...
...Fields (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC-Red) guest-stars with Nelson Eddy to renew his famous Charlie McCarthy feud for a single Chase & Sanborn broadcast...
...present the club is having a feud with the Deanna Durbin Devotees, a national organization. When Nelson Blair, National Secretary of the Devotees, was informed of the Harvard club's stiff admission requirements, he replied that the Devotees were much more loyal to "the most beautiful girl in the world." Blair said he saw "100 Men and a Girls" 24 times. "They are not serious enough for us," commented President Otvos...
...years ago when Illinois' Democratic Governor Henry Horner advanced his feud with Chicago's Democratic Mayor Edward J. Kelly by a State law requiring the permanent registration of voters, many and loud were reformers' predictions of what the Chicago voting lists would reveal. Last week the Cook County Board of Election Commissioners, which has been investigating the lists for a year, made one highly interesting revelation: that 150,000 of the county's 2,000,000 enrolled voters are not U. S. citizens...
...Velrans likes sunlight; for its cabbages, the adjoining village of Longeverne likes rain. One day, centuries back, the peasant folk of the two villages set out for the same shrine to pray for their respective needs. Brisk words led to a brisk battle, and the prayers went unsaid. The feud is still being fought by 20th-century youngsters, even though the blonde schoolteacher (Claude May) at Velrans and the handsome mayor of Longeverne (Jean Murat) are more than willing to set an example in neighborly love. In the children's war, the most telling blow is to snip...