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Gemini. The Class of 1930 will vote not to hold a reunion, with one Alumni Association officer explaining, "Their class spirit just never seemed to jell." The liquor, already purchased, will be donated to the New York Mirror's list of the 100 seediest families...
...Charles G. Mortimer, 53, moved up from executive vice president to president of General Foods Corp., largest U.S. maker of packaged foods (Birds Eye, Maxwell House, Jell-0, Swans Down, Baker's Chocolate, Gaines Dog Food, etc.). He succeeds Austin S. Igleheart, who became board chairman. A onetime adman, Mortimer discovered one day that Postum Co. (predecessor of General Foods) had just bought Sanka and, "with only a phone call," had canceled his profitable Sanka account, handed it over to a rival agency. Later the company saw the mistake and in 1928 hired him as Sanka's advertising...
...time when the tax jell due came upon the nomes [Egyptian provinces) as a terrible crisis which affected the whole population. For several days there was nothing to be heard but protestations, threats, beating, cries of pain from the taxpayers, and piercing lamentations from women and children...
...fast. "Sometimes," says he, "I look at" my watch and it says 4 o'clock and I haven't got anything on paper. Then I remember I'm an hour and a half fast and I feel better.'' When an idea is slow to jell, he has turned out a cartoon in less than 40 minutes...
...brilliant choreography and some of Mielziner's finest sets, but it doesn't quite jell. Cole Porter's songs seem properly spirited yet they are far from his best...