Word: ghosted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Casper the Friendly Ghost is an amiable, almost cherubic-looking cartoon character. But his creator, Harvey Publications, felt downright hostile when the company's executives saw the logo for Columbia Pictures' 1984 blockbuster movie Ghostbusters. The logo featured a cartoon ghost behind the symbol for prohibition, a red circle with a bar across its center. Two years ago, Harvey filed a $50 million lawsuit claiming copyright and trademark infringement. The company claimed that the logo copied a Harvey cartoon character named Fatso, one of a trio of ghosts that taunt Casper...
Last week a U.S. district court dismissed the suit. "There are only very limited ways to draw the figure of a cartoon ghost," said Judge Peter Leisure. But the ghost could come back to haunt another judge because Harvey may appeal the ruling...
Imagine the Crimson's surprise when Sellers' ghost appeared on Soldiers Field yesterday in the guise of Yale's present goalie, freshman Sue Sabatino...
Quincy House resident Audris S. Wong '89 yesterday refused to discuss the sighting of a ghost last year in her Weld Hall common room...
There have been other shady reports of mysterious happenings. Twelve years ago, a clairvoyant spoke at Massachusetts Hall, Harvard's oldest building, where a ghost purportedly visits each fall to take up the residence of his youth. The speaker also warned students that any photographs taken of her would not come out because of the strong supernatural presence in the room. Sure enough, the photographs came out blank...