Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beautiful 20-year friendship, in which waspish Gossipist Walter Winchell played Damon to the Pythias of Manhattan Saloonkeeper Sherman Billingsley, had gone pffft, according to Winchell. The rift began, bleated keyhole journalism's grand old man, when ex-Bootlegger-Speakeasier Billingsley, whose flossy Stork Club got much of its floss from Winchell's ceaseless plugs, spatted with Winchell over a pack of cigarettes. The upshot was earthshaking, as Walter wailed last week: "At one time he thought I was a wonderful guy. I haven't been in the Stork in seven or eight weeks...
...When he obtained power in Egypt, we felt no hostility towards him. On the contrary, we made agreements with him . . . Instead of meeting us with friendship, Colonel Nasser has conducted a vicious propaganda campaign against our country . . . And now he has torn up all his country's promises toward the Suez Canal Company . . . The pattern is familiar to many of us, my friends. We all know it is how fascist governments behave, and we all remember only too well what the cost can be in giving in to fascism. We do not seek a solution by force . . . But this...
...Hallo, Mary!" Publication of Shaw's iconoclastic parable, The Black Girl in Search of God, temporarily broke the friendship between the nun and the old man, though he insisted to her that it was directly inspired by God and wrote on the flyleaf of the proof sheets he sent her: "An Inspiration which came in response to the prayers of the nuns of Stanbrook Abbey and in particular to the prayers of his dear Sister Laurentia for Bernard Shaw." They argued bitterly over it by mail. "You are the most unreasonable woman I ever knew . . ." wrote Shaw. "You think...
...first, Peking radio said that the reports of a Communist invasion were obviously untrue, since such an incursion "would be devoid of military common sense." But at week's end Peking radio conceded that there were troops inside the "disputed" area "in a spirit of friendship. Under these circumstances there is fundamentally no such question as crossing into the territory of Burma...
...historic meaning of Panama: more mutual trade and aid among the Latin American nations, with a corresponding playing down of continuing economic dependence on the U.S. Old rivalries, bad transportation and plain shortage of capital in most countries plainly stand in the way. But the unexpected show of presidential friendship was a hopeful sign on the first week after the meeting that the historic divisions of Latin America may be breaking down...