Word: frankfurter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Double Standard. In Frankfurt, West Germany, Movie Starlet Sabine Sinjen, 17, greeted thousands of fans at the premiere of her new comic criminal film, No Angel Is So Pure, then had to go home before the actual showing because it is a film that German law forbids juveniles to attend...
Into the West German mails this week went 3,500,000 copies of a 400-page catalogue that will set off a long-distance shopping spree in homes from Bremerhaven to Garmisch-Partenkirchen. The catalogue is the latest and fattest from Frankfurt's Neckermann Mail Order House, offers Germans 5,500 items at prices as much as 40% lower than those of competing retail stores. This year, for the first time, the orders (averaging nearly 40,000 a day) will pour into a massive new steel and concrete headquarters now being taken over by the expanding firm. Built...
...business. Today, Neckermann rules over an empire of 22 retail stores, 48 electrical appliance stores, 60 repair shops, more than 100 mobile repair units and 8,000 workers-and a 1959 gross of $132 million. All this has made Joseph Neckermann a millionaire: he lives in a 16-room Frankfurt mansion with his wife and three children, indulges his hobby of riding with a stable of prizewinners. To keep his empire humming, he works 12 hours a day, often sleeps on an office couch...
...Wholesalers and Retailers pressured small firms to prevent them from subcontracting to make goods for Neckermann. He sued for damages, and in postwar Germany's liberal economic climate won his case and forced the association to rescind its edict. Moving out of his barracks into an eleven-story Frankfurt building, Neckermann fattened his catalogue, added furniture, came out with a "Neckermann Radio-Super" that had the same features as competitors' models but sold for $45, v. $75. The radio started Neckermann's real troubles-and his real opportunity...
...quite) comes off as the Dreigroschenoper (Threepenny Opera) of the fat '50s. Director Rolf Thiele and Scenarist Erich Kuby have lifted their plot from some recent accounts in Germany's tabloids of the gay life and ghastly death of Rosie Nitribitt, a high-class floozy of Frankfurt who opened her door to dozens of West German millionaires but couldn't keep her mouth shut, and so one night was strangled with a pair of her own nylons (TIME, Sept. 29, 1958). The movie takes the sordid case as an occasion for social satire, as a chance...