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...Charles Greenough Mortimer, 59, was elected chairman of General Foods Corp. He will continue as chief executive officer, a post he has held since 1954, when he was named president of the nation's largest packaged-food processor (Jell-0, Maxwell House coffee, Birds Eye frozen foods). As chairman, a previously vacant post, Mortimer will concentrate on the company's future growth and development. Succeeding Mortimer as president is Wayne C. Marks, 55, who will also be chief operating officer. Marks joined General Foods in the position of clerk in 1926, was appointed executive vice president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Changes of the Week, Oct. 19, 1959 | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

...Jell-O ("If the illustrations have changed through the years from molded gelatin desserts and from animals to hungry children to characters out of Andersen and Grimm-and back again to puddings and pie fillings-the personality has never changed. The confidence with which various Jell-O promises have been made has never varied. Even with all the opportunities in more exciting foods, Jell-O advertising has been outstanding in its basic simplicity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Top Ten | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...modest. Hungry Americans are well acquainted with the company's pantry of 235 branded products, including the nation's best-selling coffee, Maxwell House; its biggest-selling frozen foods, Birds Eye; such old staples as Baker's cooking chocolate, Jell-O and Swans Down cake flour; and its top-selling dog meal, Gaines. General Foods' products go from breakfast (Post's cereals) to warm nightcaps (Postum, Sanka), also wash the pots and pans that its foods are cooked in (S.O.S. Scouring Pads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Billions in the Pantry | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

...partner in the Wall Street brokerage firm carrying his name), the company from 1925 to 1929 picked up many of the best-known U.S. food processors. Among them: Baker's chocolate, founded in 1765, which Postum got for $9,000,000 in stock; Maxwell House (for $46 million); Jell-O ($44 million); Birds Eye ($22 million); Swans Down ($7.4 million); also Minute Tapioca, Log Cabin syrup, Calumet Baking Powder. Hutton and Chester renamed this big shopping bag General Foods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Billions in the Pantry | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

...number two, where he will face Jon Clark, who lost in three sets to North Carolina's Steve Bank. Sears defeated Bank when the Tarheels played in Cambridge, and has been on his game all year, except for his loss to Tom Richardson when his game failed to jell...

Author: By Walter L. Goldfrank, | Title: Tennis Team to Oppose Elis For Ivy League, Big-3 Titles | 5/14/1958 | See Source »

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