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...potato in her hand. In Tosca, when Antonio Scotti stooped to pick up the paint brush beneath Cavaradossi's easel, he had to yank at it for minutes-Caruso had nailed it to the floor. Caruso's most celebrated peccadillo led to his arrest on the complaint of a Mrs. Hannah Graham who had run into him at the Central Park Zoo and testified breathlessly: "He insulted me. He brushed against me three times, maybe four times. He . . . He . . ." Caruso was tried for disorderly conduct before an adoring throng in a Yorkville court, found guilty and fined...
...Defense. W. T. Grant's answer to OPA's complaint concentrated on this manifest absurdity. The answer pointed out that under MPR-330, 37 Grant stores are forbidden to sell a $10.98 coat that 401 others could still carry because they never sold coats before. Just for good measure, the defense also alleged that the whole Price Control Act, not to mention MPR-330, violates the Fifth ("due process") Amendment of the Constitution...
Helpmeets. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Robbie Emerson complained that her husband made long-distance telephone calls to her, collect, and never said a word. She won a divorce on the ground of cruelty. In Minneapolis, John Hilton Stiles won one on the complaint that his wife lived with a dozen rattlesnakes, a number of copperheads, coral snakes and water moccasins, a 9-ft. Indian python, a Siamese hooded cobra, an African green mamba...
...only complaint which has not as yet received any action from the University is the matter of inter-House dining privileges. According to the Council Committee, this privilege has been withheld from the students by the University in order to encourage the individual's making friends in the House in which he lives...
Last week one of the big Government-building cafeterias (the Bureau of Printing & Engraving) was denounced as "horribly unhealthy." Specific gripes in the complaint of the United Federal Workers of America (C.I.O.): a mouse in the soup container, worms cooked in greens, a caterpillar in the gingerbread, chewing gum on a pie plate, fish scales in the soup, improperly washed china...