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...Politically conscious California no longer sneers at the Okies. Says Philip Bancroft: "They are fine people, farmers, just like ourselves. And it wasn't the Dust Bowl that drove them out of Oklahoma; it was the failure of the New Deal's farm program." Biggest complaint of growers: higher relief rates in California than in Oklahoma and Arkansas...
...efficient is the French supply system was suggested last week by the gravity of the latest complaint of French troops, whose favorite game is Belote (similar to pinochle). Special tricolor playing cards issued to them taxfree, instead of having the usual French revenue stamp on the face of the ace of clubs, have written across the back of that card, "For exclusive use of troops in the field." You can no more play Belote than you can poker with marked cards...
Last week, while Hollywood made passes at Conchita, Grandfather Verrill, warming his 79-year-old bones in Florida's sunshine, frowned on his granddaughter's monkeyshines: "She's a darn fool and bound sooner or later to get killed." But spirited Conchita Cintron's only complaint last week was that Mexican bulls are not savage enough...
This week Jimmy and Betsey Roosevelt ceased to be man & wife. They were separated not by his original suit (desertion) but under her cross complaint (cruelty and desertion). With a lawyer and a brother for legal and emotional support, Betsey trekked from Manhattan to Los Angeles to see her suit through. On her arrival she sat down in her mink coat and broad-brimmed spring hat and managed a wry smile for photographers. Next day, as she appeared in court in the same outfit, she was almost gay. She testified that Jimmy had asked her for a divorce as long...
Skimpy attendance at Faculty meetings is an old complaint. It was to remedy this that the Faculty Council, an elected representative body, was set up a few years back. Last fall, when the tenure controversy raged and the interests of Harvard teachers were directly involved, attendance zoomed; at one session nearly 300 Faculty members attended the largest meeting in Harvard history. Encouraged by the big turn-outs, the Faculty voted to suspend the Faculty Council for a year and to resume regular full Faculty meetings. But now the fever has subsided, mid-winter apathy has set in, and on alternate...