Word: soups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Inspiring. At noon he and Clint Anderson sat down with Production Marketing Administration agents and Farmers' Union bosses for a well-advertised starvation lunch: a cup of potato soup, one piece of bread (no butter), one cup of coffee (no cream or sugar). Butch lighted a cigar and looked slyly at the hungry diners from the northwest plains. Then waiters trooped in with salmon steak, potatoes, string beans, plenty of bread & butter...
Herbert Hoover trudged wearily through Warsaw's ruins, soup kitchens, orphans' homes. In Hoover Square, Poland's grateful tribute to him after World War I, he saw how his statue had been destroyed by German grenades. But the heavy-jowled old man, who had brought succor to Europe a quarter-century ago, was still building something more substantial than a marble monument. Restlessly, unsparing of his age, he scourged the world's conscience...
...dinner since 1944 turned out to be Harry Truman's kind of party. Though Washington's Mayflower Hotel had put out its best napery, the affair had the informality of a barbecue. Fortified with bourbon, 1,800 Democrats uncomplainingly ate the 700-calorie "austerity dinner" (tomato soup, baked chicken, potatoes, salad and one oatmeal cookie) for which they had paid $400 apiece. They whistled, whooped and slapped backs. Soprano Grace Moore rose with a flash of jewels, and sang a hillbilly song. Leon Henderson gave her a cigar...
...neighbor, an ex-professor of chemistry, egged on by a boozily mischievous advertising man, acts out a cruel, funny little fable of Good & Evil when he banishes the ducks he loves and sublimates the duck-killing turtles he abominates into a best-selling soup. "Turtle soup," chortles the adman, captioning a pallid portrait of a lady in crinolines, "saved the sweethearts and mothers of a proud and gallant race." Another neighbor, variously known as Blackburn, Malatesta and Swarzkopf, turns out to be the Devil, and delivers some of Author Wilson's most envenomed and heartfelt opinions (notably on Stalinism...
...radio's newest and freshest programs, Request Performance (TIME, Feb. 11), was sacked last week by Campbell's Soup, effective April 21. Reason: the show's Hooper and Crossley ratings were not high enough...