Word: trademark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ebright started early and stayed late. At the crew-conscious University of Washington (class of 1917), he was a fine coxswain under the great Hiram Conibear, father of West Coast rowing, and developer of the upright stroke with short layback that became the trademark of West Coast crews, differentiating them from Eastern oarsmen, who took their style from the British. California picked Ebright in 1924 to raise the Golden Bears to Washington's lofty level. Results came quickly. In 1927, 1928 and 1929, California crews, newly tutored in the Conibear stroke by Ebright, left mighty Washington trailing in their...
TEXACO, INC. will be the new name of the Texas Co., major petroleum producer (1958 sales: $2.3 billion), since everybody calls it by its trademark...
Garbed in the extremely informal attire which has become their trademark, Mr. Corso and Mr. Ginsberg read extensively from alternately long and short poems, with Mr. Corso showing a much stronger tendency towards humor in his writing than did Mr. Ginsberg. The latter, to the considerable surprise of most of the audience, which had come in search of a sideshow, was an unexpectedly "serious" poet, especially in the long prose poem, Kaddish, and in the well-known Howl with which he ended his reading...
...Chicago for a short story reading, button-eyed Writer Dorothy Parker, 65, astounded newsmen with a shimmering new hairdo that banished her longstanding trademark: languidly cascading dark bangs. Why so? "To tell the truth," confided Dorothy, "I had to give up bangs. Too dangerous. They caught fire when I lit a cigarette...
Died. Frances Williams, 57, blonde, willowy, five times wed (and divorced) Broadway musicomedienne of the '20s and. '30s (Artists and Models, Life Begins at 8:40), who dazzled crowds with her throaty versions of civilized blues (her trademark: a wisp of chiffon tied to one finger), retired after a sporadic later career of road shows and TV guest shots; of cancer; in Manhattan...