Word: branded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chiggers beneath the skins of network bigwigs and Madison Avenue operatives is the custom of the free plug, or "plugola." A TV comic, disk jockey or M.C. slips a brand name into his patter, e.g., "They said I was drunk, but it was all relative-Old Grand-Dad," and he or his gagwriter can count on the "payola"-a case or two of whisky in the next delivery. Offenses have occurred most persistently on the Bob Hope, Jack Benny, Arthur Godfrey, Steve Allen and Robert Q. Lewis shows; yet the networks fear to order their stars to stop the practice...
...Union tolerates Wladyslaw Gomulka's "pure" national Communism; in Hungary it cracked down mercilessly when Imre Nagy tried to dilute national Communism with social democracy. Since the Hungarian crackdown, Tito has gone to elaborate lengths to prove to the Russians the "purity" in Moscow terms of his own brand of national Communism. Last week he did his best to show that his regime was not guilty of democracy...
...Lazy River. The King then gave each member of Goodman & Co. a crested silver cigarette case, was in turn presented with a handsome clarinet. That was enough to kick off a jam session lasting another hour, with Phumiphon, joined by some of his own royal band, switching between his brand-new clarinet and his trustier saxophone. After the last note had shaken the palace, Goodman allowed...
...Rhodes Scholar is perhaps the most highly prized honor any student can hope to receive in this country. This is not because the stipend is unusually large--it amounts to 600 pounds, or almost 1700 dollars, per year--but rather because a Rhodes has come to symbolize a brand of all-around excellence which will earmark each individual recipient for the rest of his life...
...office building at the Homestead plant, constructed out of a new kind of cost-cutting, space-saving stainless steel. Said Big Steel's President Hood: "This is the first true stainless-steel curtain-wall office building ever built. It marks the kickoff by U.S. Steel into a brand new market that has a potential demand for 500,000 tons of steel sheets yearly...