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...Gable. Gable claimed shudderingly that the hero's flagrantly libertine outlook would ruin him forever as a great lover. The book's big sales and a denatured script brought Gable around. Metro decided to create its own star (Metro can create a star overnight as surely as Hormel creates Spam). Why not Deborah Kerr? But the producer, Arthur Hornblow Jr., was still worried. The Hucksters, he pointed out, is budgeted at $2,500,000 and Gable is one of the most valuable properties in pictures; why risk a new girl? The High Council compromised. It scheduled Miss Kerr...
Died. George Albert Hormel, 85, founder of George A. Hormel & Co. (now run by his son Jay), Minnesota meat-packing house which kills a million pigs a year ; after a stroke ; in Los Angeles...
Editor of Stars & Stripes is Major Emsley M. Llewellyn, a Tacoma advertising man who covertly sneaks his own contributions into his "Army Poets" column. Business manager is an ex-Hormel Packing Co. executive, Private Warren McDonnel. News Editor Robert L. Moora, a staff sergeant, is a former Herald Tribune desk...
...Chez Paree, on Chicago's North Side, trim, blonde, blue-eyed Dorothy Laxon, 22, of Minneapolis, told her tale. She took up dancing at 12, got her stage start five years ago with one of Packer George A. Hormel's traveling shows to advertise Hormel meat products. Rather than risk winding up her career as a Spam actress, Dorothy sent her picture to Chez Paree, has been one of 17 girls in the line there for four years. Dorothy's ambition: a chance in a Broadway show...
None of these pyrotechnics has hurt Hormel's business. Since Jay C. took over, his company has had only one bad year: a $608,779 deficit in 1931. Last year it netted a comfortable $1,031,574 profit on sales of $56,921,648 worth of meat, vegetables, poultry products, paid a $1.50 dividend on 474,990 shares of common...