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...prices rose less than 14%. Yet supermarket operators admit that they could do considerably more to reduce costs through automation. Across the typical checkout counter run 22 tons of merchandise a week-all of it totted up and packed by hand. Says George W. Jenkins, president of Florida-based Publix Super Markets: "Many repetitive supermarket activities are readymade for mechanical and electronic assistance...
Comeback on the Corner. The nationwide chains are built to the hilt and boxed in by several kinds of competition. They are often outwitted by smaller, local supermarket chains-such as Florida's Publix, Texas' J. Weingarten Inc., California's Lucky Stores-whose managers are more sensitive to neighborhood tastes and do not have to clear decisions with far-off headquarters. The chains are also being nicked by a new phenomenon, the discount food store, where housewives pick their packaged goods from open packing cases instead of neat shelves, and pay prices generally 6% below those...
Last week Kramer teamed up with shrewd Sam Katz, cofounder of the Balaban & Katz theater chain, onetime vice president of Paramount Publix, longtime M-G-M executive, to form the Stanley Kramer Co., Inc. As president and executive producer, Stanley Kramer will contribute his abundant talent and his team. Board Chairman Katz will contribute his distribution know-how and $2,000,000. Once the company really gets rolling, said President Kramer, it will produce and distribute some 20 films a year...
...Easy Living" at the Keith Memorial, the story of pro football in which Vic Mature kicks around Liz Scott; "Jolson Sings Again" at the Low's Orpheum, Larry Parks as He; "Come to the Stable" at Loew's Publix, Celeste Holm and Loretta Young as Sisters; "Pinky" at the Astor, Jeanno Crain portrays a light-skinned colored nurse; "Yes Sir, That's My Baby" at the RKO Boston, Donald O'Connor proves he's not my boy; "Savage Splendor" at the Pilgrim, exotic Africa in garish technicolor. Walt Disney's "Ichabed and Mr. Toad" is back up on Tremant Street...
Hard-working Stephen T. Early walked out on a reputed $20,000-a-year job (as Washington representative of Paramount-Publix Corp. and Paramount News) to become Franklin D. Roosevelt's press secretary. During his twelve years in that post he won fame at financial sacrifice. Every time he had wanted to quit to take one of a dozen business offers, FDR had talked him out of it. So he continued to draw the authorized $10,000 a year...