Word: rifted
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...flurry of feathers and screeching again issued from the gilded cage of Hollywood's scrappiest lovebirds, Franchot Tone, 47, and Barbara Payton, 25 (TIME, Sept. 24 et seq.). The latest rift, according to Manhattan Gossipist Cholly Knickerbocker, began innocently enough. Barbara, apparently in a pet, ripped a telephone from the wall of their West Side hotel suite and swung it at Franchot, whose ducking has improved since last September when he brawled and was flattened by Barbara's robust friend, Cinemactor Tom Neal. At week's end, Franchot, still in Manhattan, and Barbara, back in Hollywood, both...
...atmosphere hot with the steam of seething tempers, the riven ranks of British Labor met last week in a parliamentary committee room to patch up their difference-or open the rift irrevocably. For once, Party Leader Clement Attlee had thrown his native caution to the winds. He came to the meeting armed with a resolution demanding that the rebel Bevanites come to heel, without reservation. They must support, among other things, rearmament. Bevan himself, in a speech in his own constituency of Ebbw Vale, had all but threatened to withdraw from the party if such a resolution were pressed...
...Bevanite John Strachey claimed the floor to introduce a compromise resolution urging re-establishment of the old rule that Laborites must promise to vote with the party except on "matters of conscience," e.g., pacifism. Still quivering, Clem and Nye were both persuaded to accept the motion. Labor's rift was thus papered over for the time being-but the crack was still there...
Ever since the Dixiecrat revolt of 1948, politicians and pundits have been speculating about the course Southern Democrats would follow in 1952. Truman failed to heal the rift between Northern and Southern Democrats. On the other hand, most of the Dixiecrat leaders lost ground within the Democratic Party. The South's problem this time was how to oppose Truman without leaving the party. Last week the Southern leaders disclosed the first step in their program...
Divorced. By Cinemactress Gene (Laura) Tierney, 31, who claimed that "he didn't give me a dime in ten years": Manhattan Dress Designer Oleg Cassini, 38; after 10½ years of marriage, a rift in 1946-48, two daughters; in Santa Monica, Calif...