Word: labels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pivoted front teeth. The plan was to rob the apartment on the first visit, but Guidice was scared of the butler. "I froze," he explained with the air of a peasant who had seen his king. "I just froze up there." On their "mistaken" package they left the label of a real dry cleaner for whom Paladino used to work, and that was their undoing. Employees of the cleaning establishment told police that the not-so-brainy Paladino had recently been asking searching questions about the Parnis apartment...
When Columbia Records Inc. reissued some of its early Louis Armstrong recordings it ran into plenty of competition: some of the same records were already being sold by an obscure company called Paradox Industries, under the label "Jolly Roger." This pirate trademark was well justified, Columbia and Armstrong charged last week in a joint suit seeking to stop Paradox from selling the records and to collect damages. Paradox, they charged, had simply taken the old Columbia Armstrong records and pressed its own new ones from them...
...Consecrated. Republican Representative Reed F. Cutler hung a sneering label on the gentleman governor: "Sir Galahad." And many of the old pols in his own party were willing to echo the sneer. Senate Democrats elected Boss Bill Connors, from Chicago's notorious 42nd...
...Nothing Further." Finally the U.N. negotiators offered their opponents a five-point package deal with a take-it-or-leave-it label. The U.N. would agree on: 1) limited instead of unlimited troop rotation; 2) inspection teams from neutral nations for behind-the-lines observation; 3) a double instead of a single inspection system (one group behind the lines, one for the buffer zone; 4) no U.N. air observation; 5) rehabilitation of "certain" North Korean airfields for civilian use. In return the Reds must agree, positively, not to construct or use airfields for military purposes...
...welter of pop music last week, a song called It's All in the Game was beginning to get attention. The credit line on its record label read simply "Sigman-Dawes." Lyricist Carl Sigman's sentimental lines were the standard drippy stuff, but the lilting waltz tune had an unusually fresh, clean sound. Its composer: the late Charles G. ("Hell 'n Maria") Dawes, Chicago banker, amateur musician, and Vice President of the U.S. in the Coolidge Administration...