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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mortimer moved on the board in 1950, jumped to executive vice president in 1952. The top job was now in view, but Mortimer got hot competition from two company rivals. Chairman Francis was behind Mortimer, recognized that the company needed a strong merchandising man to lead General Foods into the future. When Mortimer became president and chief executive officer, his two rivals left the company...
...Judah Holstein, 32, of Los Angeles, last week faced the harrowing test that comes to almost every young working wife: her first big dinner party. A top Hollywood secretary (to Producer Stanley Kramer), Selma Holstein had to grapple with phones, mountains of paper, and hubbubing actors and directors all day, rush off at 6 p.m. to prepare a dinner for 14. To complicate matters, she had to go through her paces at her sister's house because her own apartment has no dining room, only a small kitchenette...
Scramble for the Top. Mortimer took the advertising and marketing route upward at General Foods. He became vice president in charge of advertising in 1939, vice president in charge of marketing in 1947. One of the company's postwar problems was frozen foods. General Foods had carried the burden of the industry for years without making a penny of profit, but World War II shot the industry's business up to 1 billion Ibs. in 1945. Suddenly the get-rich attractions were so strong that fly-by-night outfits rushed out poor-quality products, gave frozen foods...
Pillow Talk. Hollywood's top box-office attractions, Doris Day and Rock Hudson, are brought together like a pair of 1960 Cadillacs in a one-car garage...
...Crimson squash team swept past a dogged Army nine at West Point Saturday to win, 9 to 0. Although in their usual top condition physically, the Cadets simply lacked the experience necessary to handle the powerful Harvard team...