Word: item
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outside of the latter rather sticky item, The Captain From Koepenick is highly entertaining, and in a few of the comic scenes, positively brilliant. Helmut Kautner's comic direction is perceptive and lightning fast. His sausage-filled officials are overdone perfectly, and his other minor characters dodge in and out of the story with potent effect. And of course, throughout, there is Heinz Ruhmann's performance, which alone makes The Captain From Koepenick eminently worth seeing...
...Times's readers are exacting. From sobering experience, the Times's Executive Editor Thomas C. Harris, 51, has learned that the green benches lining Central Avenue are crowded with retired authorities from every imaginable-field, all vigilant to catch the Times in error. Running a filler item on annual steel production in the U.S., the Times misquoted a single digit; five readers called in triumphantly with the correction. When an ad erroneously quoted a can of tuna at 7? instead of 17?, penny-watching pensioners bought 6,960 cans in six hours; the store billed the Times...
...forward torpedo room of Archerfish were Commander (Medical Corps) George Bond, 43, and Chief Engineman Cyril Tuckfield, 38. Dr. Bond wore nothing but swimming trunks, face mask, a Mae West life vest and a pressure gauge on his wrist. Tuckfield carried a small additional item: a nose clip of rubber-padded steel. They clambered into Archerfish's tiny forward escape hatch and dogged down the door, cutting themselves off from the rest of the submarine. Over UQC came the word: all set. Penguin's skipper, Lieut. Commander George Enright, began a six-minute countdown...
...press, in a meeting with Dean Bundy today, for some more flexible board system, perhaps a pay-by-the-item meal, an 18-meal or 14-meal per week rate, or some sign-off provisions...
This idea drew support from John J. Conway, Master of Leverett House, who said the suggestion "at first glance has most interesting possibilities." Conway said the system would cut down paid labor behind the steam tables, an item he thought took a big chunk from the Dining Halls' budget...