Word: gripes
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...years as a hit play in New York. The road company which brought the last to Boston Monday night has done nothing to break the string. This production, even without the superb acting of Henry Fonda and his Broadway confreres, is a fine show from the first gripe to the final curse...
...Pirosh fought in the foxholes near Bastogne, his story is littered with humor, characters and incidents made familiar by every war story since What Price Glory. His soldiers, never silent, are always armed with dialogue that should keep movie audiences giggling and, in the acceptable Sergeant Flagg style, mordantly gripe and gibe at each other. That fixture of war movies, the rookie (Marshall Thompson) with the Mother's Boy face and a frightened desire to please the grownups, turns up in the first scene; not long after, enters the friendly, lushly curved peasant girl (Denise Darcel...
...University of California at Los Angeles has long been jealous of its big sister at Berkeley, the University of California. Though U.C.L.A. has sprouted into something of an Amazon itself (present enrollment: 14,983), its graduates think it has sometimes been treated like a gangling adolescent. One graduate gripe: though Berkeley has had a law school for years, U.C.L.A. had none...
Private Gordon Gray had been in the Army only a week when he had a gripe. Bedbugs, he complained to the supply sergeant at Fort Bragg, were making his life miserable. The sergeant met the problem with soldierly calm, promptly issued Private Gray a special weapon: one Flit gun, loaded. That was Gordon Gray's first lesson in military supply. He went on learning, first as a wartime infantry captain, then as Assistant Secretary, and later as Under Secretary of the Army in charge of procurement of everything from Flit guns to tanks. Last week, President Truman decided that...
Every student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences gets a chance to gripe to the boss at 8 p.m. tonight in Emerson...