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Quadrangle. In Minneapolis, Stanley H. Mueller and his mother took their complaint to divorce court: Stanley's pretty Dutch war bride of an hour had run off with father...
...Vegetables. The packinghouse workers' complaint was an old one. They were among the lowest-paid workers in any mass-production industry. They had had a total 35? boost since the war; they wanted 29? more. The packers had countered with an offer of 9? The C.I.O. union elected to fight...
Another client, a Radcliffe student of dubious mental powers, entered complaint against several national magazines for using her picture on their covers without her permission. As evidence, the near-sighted girl displayed photographs of Lana Turner and Jean Tierney in poses of semi nudity. The law students were hard pressed for authoritative legal precedence in the case, but again succeeded in satisfying the plaintive without resorting to court procedure...
...Second complaint of the waiters is that, although their job is intended as a type of scholarship, they are treated as "help" by Union matrons. At times, they have been told that a certain desirable food which is in short supply is not to be eaten by "help." The waiters argue that they pay just, as much for the meal as every other Freshman...
...again the U.S. had failed to grasp its opportunities. When Britain's Ernest Bevin suggested a union of Britain and Western Europe, the U.S. had cheered loudly, then sidestepped. The union idea died on the vine. In the U.N., around the anterooms and lounges, the most frequently heard complaint from delegates who looked to the U.S. for leadership was: "We would like to follow you but we don't know where you're going...