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Almost every handyman-around-the-house knows "Plumb" hammers and hatchets. Philadelphia's venerable Fayette R. Plumb, Inc. has been making fine tools since the 1880's, and is proud-and jealous-of its trademark. Not so well known is Los Angeles' Plomb Tool Co. (named after Alphonse Plomb, one of three founders), a much younger firm (founded in 1907). When Plomb applied in 1926 to make its name a trademark, Plumb promptly squawked in court. The result was a deal in which Plomb agreed not to use its name on anything that resembled the famed Plumb...
...Plomb did not keep its word, and, after several suits, Plumb finally pinned Plomb down in March 1947. A U.S. district court gave the western company a year within which to stop using and advertising its name as a trademark...
...Morris Pendleton argued that the two businesses did not really overlap very much at all, and went blithely on, doing business as usual. Last week the court cracked down hard. It ordered Plomb of Los Angeles to: 1) fulfill last year's order at once, and 2) pay Plumb of Philadelphia all the profits it had made since March 1948 on sales of tools marked "Plomb...
...Robert Morley & Noel Langley; produced by Gilbert Miller & Henry Sherek) should repeat on Broadway the great success and long run (since May 1947) which it has had in London. It is that juicy mixture of about one part truth to two parts tripe known as good theater-that plumb sort of playwriting which is really just scene-writing. It gives two excellent English actors (Co-Playwright Morley and Peggy Ashcroft)* excellent opportunities...
...NEELY PLUMB...