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...Jersey, the 40-theater Walter Reade chain had dropped newsreels experimentally in half a dozen houses without a single complaint from a customer; it decided to ease them, out gradually in other theaters. In Manhattan, the RKO chain admitted that it would try the same experiment in a handful of its 108 double-feature houses...
...this isn't a serious complaint, because the music is only part of the atmosphere at the Pops, even when it's as good as it was Monday night. Though the program said that some apparently non-Harvard group called "Firnabank" was "among those present," you wouldn't have noticed, for a remarkably large number of people knew the words to "Fair Harvard," and everyone seemed to cheer when "Wintergreen" appeared as an encore...
Most British businessmen complain of stock difficulties-the high cost of raw materials, the heavy taxes they bear to maintain Socialist Britain's welfare program, and that old devil, the U.S. tariff. Some Americans, among them ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman (TIME, April 11), hold that this complaint has a sound basis; they believe that by agitating for higher tariffs and trying to thwart British trade, U.S. businessmen are actually working against their own interests. They believe it is up to the U.S. to help British and other European exporters through their troubles by allotting them a larger share...
...paid no attention to the railroad's complaint that the town only gave it $15 worth of passenger business a month. "We don't want to be just another little place like Punkin Center or Bug Scuffle," he cried, and called the city commission into special session. The result: an ordinance which would have forced trains to crawl through town at no more than 15 m.p.h., ring their bells (but not blow their whistles), with a stop for "sanitary inspections" whenever the mayor ordered...
...This complaint applies not only to the President but to his whole administration." The article cites the Student Council, "which could be said to exist largely for the purpose of complaining about things," as reporting that students are unhappy with the University "to the extent that they regard what they get as an 'empty education'--because it lacks the firm foundation of regular and intimate contact with the faculty...