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...five of the most furious, fantastic days and nights in New York's political history, Democratic leaders in Buffalo fought, shoved, shouted and wept-and came perilously close to kicking away their campaign before it even got started. With Governor Averell Harriman an uncontested shoo-in for renomination, the brawl came on the nomination of a candidate for the U.S. Senate. The ultimate nominee: New York County's five-term District Attorney Frank Hogan, 56. The real winner in the party fracas: New York County's Tammany Hall Boss Carmine De Sapio, after a polished display...
Because only about half of Columbia is numbed by the drumming, a furious row commences. The city's ladies fume about Miss Mizzou's putative lack of underclothes, while the C. of C. retorts that nothing has ever been proved in that respect. To critics who question the whole project, the C. of C. men reply that it has great publicity value but give no clear notion of what the publicity is for or what they are selling. The city council hears more arguments, schedules a final meeting for next week to decide whether Missouri's teams...
After a stretch in the navy and in Parliament (he cozened the Scottish voters by dancing Highland reels and, on one occasion, importing 15 beautiful maidens of the Clan Macleod for a party), truculent Lord George Gordon became president of the Protestant Association. Gordon was a furious enemy of the Catholic Relief Act, passed in 1778 to ease the lot of English Catholics. One June day in 1780 the association met in St. George's Fields, 50,000 strong. After a speech by Gordon, they marched eight abreast to Parliament to demand repeal of the Relief...
Lebanon was furious. The city's new motto: "Let's put the center back in the middle." Citizens fired off letters to Washington, and Lebanon Mayor Raymond Schuette snapped peckishly: "We just don't see this as something funny...
...huge canvases at the opening rapidly began sorting out impressions. Jackson Pollock was the most important, they decided. Mark Rothko's shimmering panels of color were their favorites, followed by the works of Clyfford Still (TIME, Nov. 25), Franz Kline, Philip Guston. Sam Francis. The qualities most admired: "furious vitality," "unbiased liberty," "a renovating spirit." Cried Critic Eduardo Cirlot: "The most important show that Spain has seen in the last 25 years. There's no doubt that American artists are the vanguard of the world...