Word: branded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drawing boards since early in World War II, the $50,000 Scenicruiser incorporates some features first intro duced last year in Greyhound's Highway Traveler (6-ft., nonglare picture win dows, a compressed-air suspension system for easy riding), adds some brand-new ones of its own. The 40-ft. long, split-level bus carries 43 passengers, has a washroom, a new air-conditioning and heating system and twin diesel engines...
...editorial corner hopping mad: "The unauthorized and medically unethical use of the prestige and reputation of the A.M.A. and the Journal in Kent cigarette advertisements . . . constitutes an outrageous example of commercial exploitation of the American medical profession. The implication . . . that the A.M.A. authorizes, supports or approves any particular brand of cigarettes or combination of claims made in their behalf-whether pygmy-sized or king-sized, with or without filters, nicotinized or denicotinized-provides a most reprehensible instance of hucksterism...
...second paragraph of the "sovereignty" manifesto made plain what the Kremlin's brand of "freedom" amounts to: "The Soviet Union retains . . . those functions which are connected with the safeguarding of security." The Red army, in other words, will continue to maintain its 340,000-man garrison in East Germany, a dagger directed at NATO, a club to be used against the East German people should they rebel again against their Red masters...
...inane things in a squeaky voice and sent first night audiences into hysterics. Overnight Judy Holliday's Billie Dawn became the champion of America's dumb blonde segment. Even with an Oscar on her dresser and Born Yesterday entrenched in Broadway's list of Long Runs, Judy Holliday's brand of witlessness is still unalloyed in her new movie, It Should Happen...
...good mystery and a good novel is occasionally crossed, and two new yarns get well over the border. In The Long Goodbye, Old Mystery Hand Raymond Chandler brings back his private eye, Philip Marlowe, for his first stint in more than four years. Casino Roy ale introduces a brand-new mystery writer, Briton Ian Fleming, and a hard-shelled British secret-service operative, James Bond, who should be prowling the international underground for some books to come...