Word: emmette
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...legislature's guest of honor-dressed in a tattered coat, baggy pants with wide suspenders, and a long, lachrymose mouth curved like an inverted halfmoon. The legislature was honoring him with a special resolution offering "warm gratitude for the pleasure he has brought to the world." Replied Clown Emmett Kelly, 68: "I wish I could hug and kiss every woman here and shake hands with every man." Later, Kelly met his match in another seasoned performer, Governor Ronald Reagan, and, after an exchange of show-bizzy sallies, begged off: "Don't make me laugh, Governor...
...tabloid Sun-Times does not at tempt to carry as much news as the Trib, but what it does run is sharply written and attractively and conveniently presented. Directed at readers younger than the Trib's, the Sun-Times pro jects more of a personality, and Editor Emmett Dedmon's reporters are better known around town. The paper's onceover-lightly treatment of the news appeals to commuters riding buses into the city as well as to Chicago's growing Negro population. "The Sun-Times," says a onetime Chicago editor, "comes closest to being a successful...
...excluding jurors who oppose capital punishment, the state makes both conviction and imposition of the death sentence more likely, by violating the defendant's right to a jury picked from a full cross section of the community. The second California case differs markedly. In that one, Robert Emmett Thornton, 23, has already been convicted of two kidnap-rapes. While he was awaiting formal sentencing, the A.C.L.U. asked to be allowed to challenge the constitutionality of capital punishment. In a rare move, the judge agreed to take evidence on the point: in September, such anti-death-penalty experts as former...
...Hero Business. Licensing was just the outfit to tell them. It acts as a sort of broker in what Chairman Jay Emmett, 39, calls the "hero business." It contracts for the licensing rights to properties ranging from TV characters to sports figures. It then licenses manufacturers to use the names to jazz up their own products. Now, with a score of salable names in hand-including TV's Batman and Mission: Impossible-Licensing grandly claims to be No. 1 in "an industry that represents $400 million in annual retail sales...
When they combined their small licensing businesses to form Licensing Corp. in 1961, Stone and Emmett already had such names as Superman and Singer Pat Boone. They really hit it big with James Bond. They began to peddle the rights to 007 in 1962, cashed in when Gold finger reached the theaters in 1965, touching off sales of $50 million in 007 products. The Batboom was even richer. Six months after the Batman TV series began last year, sales of Licensing-promoted Batstuff-1,000 items in all -reached $100 million...