Word: branded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opening at London's Tate Gallery. The show's 79 paintings (worth, says Chato, about $14 million) ranged from gilded early Italians through paintings by Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Rubens and Hals, and on into a luxurious display of French impressionists. Included for the first time were 33 brand-new purchases which had not even been seen in Sao Paulo. Centerpiece of the show: a fine Renoir, Baigneuse au Griffon, a nude against a background of muted brown...
...most exciting thing about Boeing's spectacular course last week was a brand-new airplane that was rolled out for its preflight tests-a big, sleek, new job painted a rich yellow and chocolate brown, with sharply swept-back wings and four huge jet engines slung underneath...
Harvey mused over the bright promises. Was a brand-new convertible right now better, for example, than the guarantee of a future job in the oil industry? It was a tough problem. The most intriguing offers seemed to come from partisans of the University of California at Berkeley. Did Ronnie want to be a writer? All right-someone at Berkeley promised him a job as sportswriter on the Berkeley Gazette. Was he interested in advertising? Fine. Alumni among the admen would be glad to get Ronnie a job in an agency. And for more immediate pin-money needs, Berkeley offered...
Sorest Point. Listening to his speech, political pundits concluded that Eden had decided the Bevan brand of anti-Americanism had become politically popular. He went out of his way to pay "my personal tribute" to Molotov, welcomed the "opportunity to meet Chou En-lai," praised France's Bidault and Mendes-France, and even had a word of praise for the U.S.'s Bedell Smith. But he pointedly had no word for Secretary of State Dulles. He pressed hard on the sorest point in the touchy U.S.-British relationship: the recognition of Red China. "There is no doubt that...
...Negro buyer is likely to spend more of his salary on high-priced goods than a white man, partly because it gives him prestige before his friends. A tobacco company aimed an ad campaign at the Negro market and, taking into account his lower income, featured its 10? brand. The campaign flopped. Admen found the Negroes resented the implication of economic inferiority, had gone right on buying their favorite top-quality brands...