Word: souping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Giuseppe Cardinal Siri, 52, Archbishop of Genoa, once known as the "minestrone cardinal" for his soup-kitchen relief work on his city's Communist-infested docks, is noted for his administrative talent and a belief in paternalism toward the workers. He also has a reputation for being severe and authoritarian in manner, is the youngest cardinal...
...travel out, whether by rickshaw, Volks-wagen or the Belmont bus, to the Fresh Pond rotary and you will find Cambridge's own mecca for fanciers of Mandarin treats such as Moo Shi pork, and hot and sour Peking soup. A dish that particularly recommends itself is Joyce Chen special shrimp--a specialty of the house, of course, because it bears the name of the proprietor...
...table like some culinary colossus, a familiar and beloved figure to trenchermen of his day. No such adulation has fallen on the narrow Gallic shoulders of Oscar's successor, Claudius Charles Philippe, 47. Son of a French chef, London-born Philippe migrated to the U.S. in 1929, stirred soup in a variety of kitchen pots, even sold Fuller brushes for a spell before going to the Waldorf as Oscar's assistant...
...greeter and as a symbol of the leisurely, intimate dinner, he more than compensated for in his mastery of the art of big-time wining and dining-and of educating thousands of barbarian palates to the delights of Rock Cornish game hen, crab meat Louis and cream of pumpkin soup. Any conclave of hungry and thirsty humans was his meat. "I won Goodyear Tire & Rubber over to pink champagne," he once boasted to a companion. Unexcelled at spreading a gourmet's table, even for the American Trucking Associations, he delighted in explaining to slightly befuddled clients that turtle soup...
Gordon and Small went on to produce pilot films for such shows as Lassie, Charlie Chan, Tugboat Annie, The Halls of Ivy and Count of Monte Cristo. T.P.A. then sold the pilots, got such sponsors as National Biscuit, Campbell Soup and International Harvester to help pay for the production costs on the series. In 1957 Producer Small returned to making features on a full-time basis, sold his interest back to T.P.A...