Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Residents have complained of the House's inability to draw distinguished scholars and other outstanding personalities. To counter this complaint, a series of dinners is being planned to which such people will be invited. A House council has been set up to deal with problems as they arise, and to suggest possible solutions to their resident tutor and the Dudley House staff...
Watson emphasized that his complaint was not with unmerged Harvard organizations, to which are extended "the greatest degree of freedom." He illustrated the amount of clerical work for which Radcliffe's policy is partly responsible, showing that 500 permits for the use of buildings, printed in September, have been used...
...then, the district school board stepped in, signed a criminal complaint charging Mrs. Wolfe with contributing to the delinquency of minors by making her children truants. The Wolfes politely turned down a request that they return the children to school, so last week the board met to take action. The law, in strictest letter, was on the board's side, yet from District Prosecutor Wayne MacGregor Jr.-supported by State Attorney General Graydon Smith-came an unexpected defense. Asked MacGregor: "May a person of school age no longer reside in a locality of his own choosing unless...
...aren't slant-eyed and flat-chested," said one young unemployed actress last week, "you haven't a prayer of getting a job." Cause of her complaint: Broadway is going heavily Oriental this season. The World of Suzie Wong (see THEATER) is only the first of a Far East catalogue that includes such forthcoming items as Flower Drum Song, Rashomon, Kataki, Cry for Happy and the umpteenth revival of The Shanghai Gesture. Even the small, off-Broadway houses are braced for the Oriental invasion, with three versions of classic Japanese No drama...
Basement Rise. Buster started his rise in the complaint department of May's Famous-Barr store in St. Louis during vacations from Dartmouth ('36), spent twp summers traveling through Russia, Manchuria and Japan as a photographic assistant to crack freelance photographer Julien Bryan. He worked his way through Famous-Barr's bargain basement, after a wartime stint as a Navy officer rose to vice president and manager of the company's two St. Louis stores before moving up to president...