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...overconservatism of an inbred management; top officers have always come up through the A. &P. ranks. But this week a youthful outsider takes over as A. & P.'s chairman. He is Jonathan Scott, 44, an informal Idaho-born six-footer who until last month was head of Albertson's, Inc., a Boise-based supermarket chain...
Scott joined Albertson's as a trainee in 1953 after marrying the boss's daughter, and rose to executive vice president six years later; he proved so able that even after his marriage broke up, his ex-father-in-law made him vice chairman and chief executive officer. Scott wants to improve A. & P.'s "slipping image" among shoppers, partly by building many new stores. He will probably ditch the WEO slogan, which he does not like, but still keep markups low. Yet he also hopes to lift A. &P.'s profit margin, which now hovers...
...Chico, Prinze gets to try out his wisecracks on the crusty old bigot (Jack Albertson) who owns the garage he works in. Chico's humor, like Freddie's, is mordant but never really malicious. Says Prinze: "Chico's made something of a life that could have left him very bitter. He could have been anything from a pusher to a pocketbook snatcher...
...Subject Was Roses. Frank D. Gilroy wrote this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of a young man returning from the war to a not so joyous homecoming. Jack Albertson won a Tony award for his role as the father who shares a new rapport with his returned son, played by Martin Sheen. Patricia Neal is the wife and mother who realizes the tragic and painful truths brought to the surface by her son's arrival. An excellent drama with its highly honored cast intact. Channel...
MONDAY. The Subject was Roses. (1968) A real sleeper with a hell of a fine performance from one of my favorite actresses, Patricia Neal, who plays the mother in this poignant WWII drama from the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Frank Gilroy. Jack Albertson won an Oscar for his supporting role as the father who welcomes his son home from the war, despite the mother's misgivings about the new-found independence of her son (Martin Sheen). Judy Collins sings "Albatross" and "Who Knows Where the Time Goes" for the sound track...