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...Mirror's new editor. He was nearly as good as his word. From seed, the Mirror bloomed in two weeks. It was a frank imitation of Captain Joseph Patterson's five-year-old Daily News, the U.S.'s first successful tabloid. But hardly had one copycat arisen when there was another: Bernarr Macfadden's Evening Graphic, a meretricious tabloid compounded of "composographs"-faked photographs, mostly of undraped women-and juicy crime...
Patent protection often means little; copycat firms know that a copied product may have spent its life cycle by the time lengthy litigation is finished. Westinghouse recently found a company copying its new hair dryer so exactly that even the instruction book was the same. In desperation, many inventive companies now license their competitors before they can copy, hoping at least to collect some royalties...
This sort of remark infuriates Mrs. Rhoda Kellogg, whose 35 years as a student and collector of children's art have convinced her that childhood's first great defeat often occurs at that moment. Giving "meaning" to the scribbles forces the child to accept a copycat view? of the world, she thinks. Sooner or later, it will cost him his natural freedom of expression. But "adults feel that anything that belongs to the child is no good," says Mrs. Kellogg. "If there's one thing they have to do, it's get rid of childhood...
...Curtises, the Milton Berles, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis and the Judy Garlands. Before it climbed to political eminence through marriage (Pee-tah's to Jack's sister Pat), The Clan was known principally as a close-knit group of rigid nonconformists, with trib al rites characterized by copycat habits (members tend to use the same agents, the same make of car, etc.). Their clannishness, in fact, is strangely similar to that of the Kennedy family itself. Mem bers of both groups are young (in spirit if not in age), skillful, articulate, gregarious and highly talented...
...Copycat. He was fascinated by the main architectural attraction-a sleek geodesic dome of gold-coated aluminum panels, 200 feet in diameter, abuilding at one end of the site. "This dome is really something," he chuckled again and again. He posed for pictures with some Italian workmen employed on the project, and called to Thompson: "Come and join me. After all, the Italians are your allies...