Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week, in 171 cities from New York to Los Angeles, the Economist did appear on U.S. newsstands. And sales were so brisk, even at 50? a copy, that some spots in Manhattan sold out in two days, while a Washington dealer, having run quickly through an allotment of a dozen, called plaintively for 18 more...
...Captain Charlie Hamm; but three other members of the 1959 top five, Gerry Emmett, Tim Gallmey, and Fred Vinton, are back and playing one, two, and three for the Crimson. Helping them out is last year's freshman star, Romer Holleran, who ranked among the top half-dozen school-age squash players in the country when he played for Exeter...
George F. Kennan, former Ambassador to the Soviet Union, will spend five weeks at the College this spring as a visiting lecturer in History. He will deliver a dozen lectures on the history of Soviet diplomacy under Stalin...
What the new league needs far more than big talk is big players like Linebacker Sam Huff. Down in Consol No. 9, back in Farmington, W. Va., a monster engine pulls loads of coal out of the mine, and still has enough power left over to do half a dozen other jobs. Nickname of the engine: the Sam Huff Special. "By jingo," says the proud father of the finest linebacker in the world, "it pulls an awful load...
...Italian government, which keeps tab on its art experts, said that Citizen Porcella was not listed as a first-rate expert, or even as a second-rate one. A Chicago art dealer named Jack Shore, president of the Sheridan Galleries, proudly revealed that Porcella had authenticated half a dozen similar masterpieces for him in the past year (among them a "Leonardo"). All were restored by Zlatoff-Mirsky, whom Shore identified as "one of the great undiscovered American painters." Normally, these would be major art finds, which would set every major U.S. museum scrambling. There has been no scramble...