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Last week another fighter of the good fight gave up, quietly entered into the public domain. Since 1958, the American Thermos Products Co. of Norwich, Conn., had been contesting the use of the word "thermos" by a competitor, Aladdin Industries Inc., of Nashville, Tenn. Ruling that American Thermos no longer held exclusive rights to the name of the jug no picnic can do without, the judge of the U.S. District Court in New Haven, Conn., pointed out that "thermos" had become generic largely through the efforts of the manufacturer himself over a period of many years...
...rights to seven Hollywood westerns and became a movie distributor. Nowadays Rosalie is just as important: when Levine needs a gadget to promote one of his pictures-4,000 small rubber bombs to advertise Hercules, or 5,000 genie lamps to push the forthcoming The Wonders of Aladdin-Mrs. Levine gets busy in her own Newton Centre, Mass., workshop. With such help, plus his own shrewd eye for mass entertainment, Joe Levine has emerged as an energy-charged captain in an industry full of spent majors. The new Hollywood is apt to forget the old rules, and says Levine with...
...planning to bury $10,000 under Atlantic beaches and to invite all poor slobs with shovels to hunt the treasure. Drawing on the specialties of an aircraft company and a rug-weaving firm, he will produce a flying carpet that will bombard the world with sultanic adjectives describing Aladdin...
...foot on South Korean soil since the end of the war. Though students paraded, shouting, "We still remember your occupation," the official reception was cordial. Kosaka flew back to Tokyo, remarking, "I hope my visit will have an effect like a magic mallet [Japan's version of Aladdin's lamp] which produces inexhaustible treasures...
...federal services. And how are they to be paid for? In the real world, the answer would have to be either inflationary deficit spending or increased taxes, but in the platform's Utopia the Democrats propose to pay the added welfare costs by rubbing liberalism's newest Aladdin's lamp-the force-fed 5% economic growth rate (growth rate of the U.S. economy over the past half-century: 3%). Platform Committee Chairman Bowles admitted fortnight ago in Los Angeles that he did not know how a 5% growth rate could be achieved without inflation, but no such...