Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Captain From Koepenick is a full color re-make of a mid-30's film about the Prussian military at the turn of the century. The story involves an ex-convict, who, becoming piqued with the government, buys an old infantry uniform, commandeers a dozen healthy, helmeted Berlin youths, marches them to the neighboring town of Koepenick, and ends up arresting the mayor and sending him to jail. The film, as it might appear, is primarily a comedy, and the last fifteen minutes are delightful in a Teutonic, beer and wursty manner...
...thrilled I didn't really know what I was buying!" exclaimed a fluttery shopper after leaving a dress shop in Topeka, Kans. She had just been waited on by the newest of the store's dozen saleswomen: temporarily retired Cinemactress Gene Tierney, 38, off and on for several years a voluntary patient in private mental hospitals. Now an outpatient in Topeka's famed Menninger Clinic, where she spent eight months last year' Gene would not discuss her courageous venture in occupational therapy. But her boss allowed: "She's doing a beautiful job. And she certainly...
...intended to symbolize the state of society, or of the book's hero, but it might just as well represent brightly burning Author Ruark. Since World War II, besides his syndicated column, old Reporter Ruark (Washington Daily News) has churned out magazine articles, movie scripts and half a dozen books, including the bloody Mau Mau bestseller, Something of Value (TIME, May 2, 1955). All this has taken its toll-several million dollars after taxes, Ruark estimates happily...
However, the more liberal elements of NSA maintain that the representatives actually do represent American students to the extent that delegates are enlightened, intelligent members of the student community. They point to the fact that NSA resolutions have followed the general trend of student thought in the dozen years since NSA was founded...
...brought in more than a dozen top executives, plucking them away from such firms as Revlon, Macy's and Marshall Field with generous stock-option plans, and he gave employee morale a quick boost by putting in a new pension plan. He reorganized Ward's management structure, bolstered confidence by delegating authority, scrapped Sewell Avery's outlandish rules. He began to change Ward's cash hoard into merchandising strength in 1955, since then has redecorated nearly 376 of the company's 566 stores, air-conditioned 73 of them, opened more than 296 new catalogue stores...