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...Macaroni moves slowly because tomato sauce and cheese are difficult to get; pancake-mix stays on the shelf when the butter supply is tight. Jello is in demand as a substitute for canned fruits. Unrationed relishes and pickles outsell rationed catsup. Since working women have less time and inclination to bake, sales of extracts and baking powder have slumped. Dog food, originally the No. 1 U.S. seller in cans, has fallen off 50%. (Dogs do not like the dehydrated products...
...psychoanalysis and more than your money's worth of entertainment, if you can comfortably contemplate the id in Technicolor. In any case, this screen version of Moss Hart's Broadway hit is a munificent, ingenious show, as artificial, colorful and shakily pretty as a cathedral made of Jello...
...there is time for a baseball game or a swim (being careful of the sharp coral rocks). Or perhaps a can of beer-the ration is two cans a week in the isolated outposts. Supper may be Spam, canned beans, baked potatoes, coffee with chicory and canned milk, Jello...
When Father John brought My Dear Children to Manhattan, Diana was on hand for the opening-and on guard. She was on guard against Father's estranged fourth wife, jello-eyed Elaine Barrie Jacobs, who, enmeshed for the occasion in a gold net dress, was already clamoring for "24 hours of bliss." Later, in a crowded and craning nightclub, the young women engaged in five hours of psychological warfare over the old man. Said Diana: 'Either she leaves or I do." Fifteen hours later, polishing off his whiskers like a pleased tomcat, John Barrymore emerged from the Hotel...
...being "sweater girl of the year" (in Charley's Aunt), got another present last week-not to be opened until autumn. Next season, Sponsor General Foods confessed, Benny will plug some other General Foods product, not the Jell-O with which he shares his present fame. Reason: JellO, being 60% sugar, may not be made nor sold in sufficient quantities to warrant the expensive exertions of Funnyman Benny, whose new two-year contract calls for a salary of $22,000 a week for 35 weeks-highest pay in radio. General Foods last week meditated giving Jell-O to Kate...