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...Hell tour of the First Drama Quartette (Laughton, Charles Boyer, Cedric Hardwicke, Agnes Moorehead). The biggest problem faced by Producer Paul Gregory: how to make Laughton stand still long enough for the filming of the 15-minute shows. Laughton finally made nine of them in two days. Sponsor Duffy-Mott plans to repeat the 26 shows after they have had one run. Said a spokesman: "By that time, we think people will be ready to hear their favorite stories all over again...
Died. Brigadier General Thomas Bentley Mott (ret.), 87, longtime military aide-de-camp and attaché in Paris, personal representative of General Pershing during World War I; in Biarritz...
Family & Early Years: Born March 17, 1899, in Pinconning, Mich., where his father ran a general store. At 13, after finishing the eighth grade, he went to work as a mail boy for the Weston-Mott Co. (auto axles) in Flint. During World War I, he worked as an ammunition inspector in the Flint Chevrolet plant; after the war he opened a real-estate brokerage with his father. In 1929, he opened a Chevrolet agency which he built into one of the largest auto agencies...
...Charles Mott, a director of General Motors since 1913, chairman of the board of U.S. Sugar Corp. and member of innumerable organizations (e.g., American Legion, United Spanish War Veterans, Royal Bermuda Yacht Club, Elks, Moose, Masons), still works hard at his goal. He pops into his paneled office every working day, keeps it filled with fresh flowers and humming with fresh ideas. Recently he helped build four new schools, especially designed with auditoriums and gymnasiums which the whole town can use. "We must build back to community activities," says Mott, "to get people to know their neighbors and bring about...