Word: trademark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...Bolletino's pressings were even pirated from RCA's own Armstrong records. Bolletino cheerfully admitted that he had pressed from the original Columbia-owned records. But he insisted that he had violated no law, since copyrights do not cover records. He had not copied Columbia's trademark, which would have been a violation...
...practically grew up in the business. Born in Dayton, Ohio, he accompanied his father on business trips by the time he was eight. Even before that, he grew acquainted with his father's trademark THINK, which was plastered all over the house. He has frequently been introduced as "Mr. Think Jr." He studied economics at Brown University, graduated in 1937 and made a name for himself at I.B.M. as a salesman before he joined the Air Force (he ended up a lieutenant colonel). He served a six-month stint in & out of Russia when he helped open the lend...
...Kefauver-for-President drive still centers in Tennessee, with clubs springing up on every other hill. Governor Gordon Browning and two of the state's Democratic Congressmen, J. Percy Priest and Albert Gore, are already out for him. Paper replicas of his political trademark, the Tennessee mountaineer's cap, have started drifting around the state, and Tennesseans are beginning to raise money to put the campaign on a national basis...
Died. Mildred Bailey (real name: Rinker), 48, blues-moaning jazz singer, whose trademark was Rockin' Chair; of a heart ailment; in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Half Coeur d'Alêne Indian, she got her start at 17, plugging tunes in a Seattle store for $10 a week, became a radio star with Paul Whiteman's orchestra (1929-34), made records, which have since become collector's items, with most of the leading jazzmen of her day (including ex-Husband Red Norvo...