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Changing Markets. Brooklyn-born Charles Mortimer joined the old Postum Cereal Co. in 1928, rose fast as adman and merchandiser. He needs both specialties now because the sweeping change in the U.S. food market has put almost 70% of grocery sales into the supermarkets, where General Foods must compete against the supermarkets' own private brands. To do it, General Foods beats the advertising drum heavily. Says Mortimer: "You have to sell your product before people get to the supermarket...
Cheat. Dangerfield, like his creator Donleavy, gets to Dublin's Trinity College as a student on the G.I. Bill of Rights. Unlike Brooklyn-born Writer Donleavy, a Navy vet who studied natural science at Trinity, Dangerfield is a spiv student of law who cheats at his exams, cheats on his wife Marion (whom he calls "a scheming slut"), cheats a succession of easy conquests, from barmaids to old maids. When one of them laments "It's adultery," Dangerfield comforts her: "One mortal sin is the same as another." He is the pest of the Coombe, Dublin...
...Brooklyn-born Gloria Davy, 25, made her first musical splash four years ago as the replacement for Leontyne Price in Porgy and Bess. She toured in the role from San Francisco to Cairo, finally abandoned Bess to avoid being typed. She studied Aïda, sang the title role in the opera house at Nice but had never attempted it with a big-league company before her debut at the Metropolitan Opera last week. Soprano Davy was thrown in with a strong cast-Kurt Baum as Radames, Irene Dalis as Amneris. Leonard Warren as Amonasro-which might well have overpowered...
Graffman, Istomin and Fleisher share remarkably similar backgrounds, musical tastes and careers (Lateiner has not yet performed as widely as the other three). Like Graffman, both Istomin, 31, and Fleisher, 29, are the sons of Russian-born parents. Brooklyn-born Eugene Istomin abandoned a boyhood ambition to play for the Dodgers (he served as their water boy during one spring training) in favor of a scholarship at Curtis, where he studied under Pianist Rudolf Serkin. San Francisco-born Leon Fleisher studied under Artur Schnabel in Manhattan, got his biggest professional boost five years ago when he won Belgium...
...Promoter. Whatever the personal profit made on the water deal (some say $100 million, others $6 million), the parallel fact was that Harry Chandler placed his faith in growth. When, shortly after World War I, Times Reporter Bill Henry brought a young, Brooklyn-born plane builder in to see the boss, Chandler's eyes brightened. Donald Douglas, Reporter Henry explained, had worked for Glenn Martin on planes for the Army and Navy; now he wanted to open his own aircraft factory in Los Angeles. Said Chandler: "I don't know much about either aviation or Mr. Douglas...