Word: trademark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drawl or his essentially mischievous disposition, provides the show's seasoning. Viewers have learned to rely on frequent injections of his subtle and astringent wit and to watch for the point of his sharp needle-often delivered with a squirming body English that is as familiar a Brinkley trademark as his lopsided smile. A onetime United Press staffer, he began doing TV newscasts in Washington in 1943, when there were only a few hundred sets in the city ("I had a chance to learn while nobody was watching"), and still claims to be astonished at his own success...
...driver in the film Wages of Fear. At 37. Singer Yves Montand is France's highest paid entertainer, the hottest music-hall performer to hit the scene since the end of World War II. Last week, appearing in the open-necked brown shirt and slacks that are his trademark, Yves (pronounced Eve) Montand made his first U.S. appearance at Manhattan's Henry Miller Theater-and proved the bravos that he has had in Europe...
Quinn had plenty of pushing room. Before long he was addressing meetings, joining the Community Chest (he later became chairman), becoming active in Roman Catholic Church groups. His trademark was his singing voice, and rare was the gathering that Quinn did not entertain with a sweet version of Ke Kali Nei Au, the old Hawaiian wedding song. "Boy," says one friend, "if there was a microphone in the room, you could bet that Bill Quinn would wind up in front...
...living denial of the regrettable accusation. Such an act (coupled with subsequent deeds of kindness and graciousness on the part of students, faculty, and administrators) contributes to the feeling that there is something inherent in the culture of Harvard which has caused the Nation to place its trademark of approval on this famed institution of higher learning...
...rise of supermarkets, which now sell 68% of all U.S. groceries, has brought some potent new weapons to an old competitive war: the fight between the national name brands (sold under a corporate trademark) and the private labels (groceries processed for individual stores or chains). In the past three years, the private labels have increased their share of the market for many items-instant coffee from 12% to 31%, frozen vegetables from 38% to 53%, margarine from 58% to 71%, etc. Even such an advocate of national brands as the National Tea Co. (1958 sales: $794 million) is reluctantly turning...