Word: feuded
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Last week he let his readers in on another feud at the opening of the Dallas Symphony season. Rosy did not care for the conductor, Walter Hendl, "whose continuance on our podium was in doubt as late as September." Even to readers unaware that Rosenfield himself had spread the rumor of Hendl's departure, the review was a tipoff. If Rosy has his way-and he usually does-Hendl's "continuance on the podium" was indeed in doubt...
Still fresh in the city's memory was Rosy's feud with Jacques Singer, whom he had enthusiastically welcomed as the first professional conductor of the symphony. Before long, Rosy turned against him. Singer became so enraged by Rosenfield's criticisms that he took to publishing handbills and making speeches in his own defense during concert intermissions...
...Maryland, veteran Senator Millard Tydings, beset by the McCarthy issue and handicapped by a local intraparty feud, reminded voters that in 1938 Franklin D. Roosevelt had tried to purge him for being too conservative...
Success, his boundless faith in himself, and his instinct for defending Li'l Abner to the death, involved him in another conflict-a remarkable feud with his former employer Ham Fisher. Capp parted from Fisher with a definite impression, (to put it mildly) that he had been underpaid and unappreciated. Fisher, a man of Roman selfesteem, considered Capp an ingrate and a whippersnapper, and watched his rise to fame with unfeigned horror...
Quick, Henry, the Flit! As the feud developed, Fisher-apparently by studying Li'l Abner with a magnifying glass-decided that it contained minuscule Rabelaisian detail calculated to undermine the morals of American youth. He caused certain frames of Abner to be enlarged and reprinted, and, after ringing suspicious portions in red, sent them to publishers, urging them to drop Capp's strip...