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Pearson, relentless in scalping others, bellowed as loudly as any victim of his own snickersnee. To Courier-Journal Publisher Mark Ethridge he fired off a testy, 2,000-word complaint about Day's aggressive and "unreasonable" attitude. Pearson even telephoned one of Reporter Day's former employers, Publisher James M. Cox of the Dayton, Ohio News, to check up on Day, triumphantly informed the Courier-Journal that Cox thought Day an "egotistical ass." As for Day's findings, Pearson brushed off the whole thing as a "how-many-angels-can-stand-on-the-point-of-a-needle...
Squeeze Play. In a 23-page complaint, McGrath ticked off the defendants' alleged sins against free trade. They control 15 of the 32 theaters in New York, seven out of nine in Chicago, two out of three in Detroit, and all the houses in Boston, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. With almost all the tryout towns under their thumb, said the complaint, the Shuberts have forced producers to rent Shubert-controlled theaters in New York by threatening to bar them from out-of-town houses. And when producers take successful shows on the road, it was charged...
...content. Another correspondent, who had been seeing Winston Churchill about the third volume of his Second World War, now appearing serially in LIFE and the New York Times, said that Churchill reports that he runs through TIME immediately on receiving it. Correspondent Cranston Jones passed along the following complaint from his doctor: "So many of my patients read the Medicine section of TIME that I have to read the blasted magazine just to know what they're talking about...
...sailed from Manhattan round Cape Horn to San Francisco in 1850 to seek a fortune in the gold fields, he carried a roll of canvas in his baggage. He intended to sell it to a tentmaker to get enough cash for a grubstake. But when he got ashore, the complaint of a friendly miner gave him a better idea. "Pants don't wear worth a hoot up in the diggins," said the miner. "Can't get a pair strong enough to last no time...
...King) of Bikom to have as many wives as he liked? The U.N. has been burdened with this question since July 1948, when St. Joan's Social and Political Alliance of London (a Roman Catholic lay organization dedicated to women's rights) presented a complaint concerning plural marriage in the British Cameroons. One missionary, said the complaint, had reported that the Fon had 600 wives, charged that he had taken one girl to his harem by force. Last year the U.N. Trusteeship Council sent a visiting mission off to West Africa to investigate. Last week the mission sent...