Word: corps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...entered Columbia Law School, but decided after five months that the law was not for him. Before coming to TIME, he wrote reports for the Rand Corp. and Republic Aviation, read unsolicited fiction for The New Yorker...
...style, Lawyer Dana was an off-hours National Guard cavalryman, punched cattle in Mexico summers to stay in shape. At 36 he reorganized New Jersey's Spicer Manufacturing Co., maker of the first successful universal joint for autos. By the time Spicer was renamed Dana Corp. in 1946, it was a Toledo-based complex of five thriving auto-parts companies. Net sales last year: $168.5 million...
What is a viewer likely to get in the "magazine concept" of television, which assigns advertisers spot announcements and leaves the network free for entertainment and information that fit its own tastes and sense of responsibility? The closest example now going is the big Canadian Broadcasting Corp., which is often watched by 1,200,000 U.S. families who live on the border. CBC creates more of its own programs (40 out of 58 network hours a week) than any major U.S. network, and they are so good that CBC collected six out of seven of this year's Ohio...
...industry and moved it-for an annual membership fee of $25, plus a daily charge of $15 for transmissions-over printers installed free in newspaper offices, broadcasting stations and other communications outlets that permitted the installation. Today Muschel has more than 700 paying customers-among them General Foods Corp., Kaiser Industries Corp. and the American Heart Association Inc.-whose copy is moved daily to 17 nonpaying subscribers, e.g., the New York Times, five other big Manhattan dailies and the U.S. Information Service...
Biggest seller among the high-priced toys is a $30, bright-eyed, 3-ft.-tall plastic doll built like a three-year-old girl. The Ideal Toy Corp.'s Patti Play Pal has surprised even its makers, who shipped 500,000 dolls, found her copied by at least six other makers selling their versions for as low as $7.99. The first big doll to really catch on, Patti owes her success to the industry's ability to make her light in weight (4¾Ibs.) and so lifelike that she can wear her owner's clothes. Other...