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Battalion/Page 5A August 30, 1982 bxic shock hits man inent. ■ United Press International 26, SpecialPnsBFORT WORTH — With six erman issuediBys of the worst sickness he has there was ii'Bei experienced behind him, :e to link DoiitjRobert Taylor said he wonders world buthasijbow he contracted a disease that lis grandjun pually attacks women — toxic i reputed merlhock syndrome, vese crime f)®; d to be amonfi-i “I still don’t understand why icsses. Hecuiijl'mtheone who had to get it,” he even vearsinfpid. “When the doctor told me I sing charges probably had toxic shock syn drome, I thought he had just on, Nathan, Si* & J pulled an illness out of the hat. I had heard of it, but always in connection with women using tampons.” The assembler for General Dynamics, 21, who recently had surgery for ingrown toenails, entered Harris Methodist Hos pital last week after two days of illness. 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ROYAL OAKS RACQUET CLUB Nashville Opry loses exclusive rights to name United Press International KANSAS CITY, Mo. — De nny Hilton said Saturday he lost thousands of dollars in the battle with a large Tennessee-based corporation over the word “opry” in his Ozark music show’s name but claimed the fight, which he won, was worth it. “I’m tickled to death,” the owner of the 1,200-seat country- music theater said in a telephone interview Saturday. “I think this is just another situation of how so many times the big, big cor poration tries to squelch the lit tle guy. “We certainly have not dam aged the Grand Ole Opry,” Hil ton said. “If they have lower attendance in Nashville, it’s not because of us here in the middle of Missouri.” Nashville, Tenn.-based WSM, owner and operator of The Grand Ole Opry and other Opry-associated enterprises, had filed a trademark infringe ment suit against “Denny Hil ton’s Country Shindig Opry Show” in Osage Beach, Mo., claiming Hilton was attempting to cash in on the Grand Ole Opry’s success. But U.S. District Judge Scott O. Wright decided Friday the word “opry” is just a word and WSM does not have exclusive rights on its use, saying the word is no more than a description of the word “opera” countrified. In June, Wright ordered Hil ton to temporarily drop the “opry” from the title of his show until a final ruling was made on the case. Wright held another hearing on the case last month but did not make a ruling until Friday. “I ruled that the name was generic and they (WSM) didn’t have a trademark on it,” Wright said late Friday. “That’s about all there is to it.” Hilton said he lost thousands of dollars because the 60 days he was ordered to stop selling things with “opry” on it was the tourist season, when 95 percent of his business comes in. Attorneys for WSM had in sisted the company owns the trademark on the name and that Hilton’s use of it was “an infring- ment and/or unfair competi tion.” “We haven’t seen the written decision yet,” WSM attorney Frank M. Wentworth said Satur day. “If the reports we heard are correct, we believe the trial court made some serious errors in its decision.” Wentworth said WSM may appeal the decision but Hilton said he’s not worried. “If I was an $80 million dollar corporation that just lost to a one-man operation, I would say the same thing,” Hilton said ab out WSM’s reaction to the deci sion. In the two-day, colorful hear ing last month, Lawton Rogers, a Washington-based attorney who specializes in trademark in fringement cases, argued that through usage since 1927 and federal mark registration from 1950 to 1982, the word “Grand Ole Opry,” “Opryland,” and “The Opry” had come to refer exclusively to the shows, stars and products of WSM. Rogers had asked Wright for a permanent injunction to force Hilton to stop using “opry” in his signs and advertising. 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