Word: soups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Half of them picked dessert, over soup, meat and vegetables. Twenty-eight percent favored going to war immediately with Germany. (In the last Gallup poll, only 24% of grownups favored such action.) Although 71% admitted that they got spanked, 82% deposed that they were afraid of neither father nor mother. Most would rather ride in an airplane than in a car, train or bus. Cartoons, comedies, mystery and adventure placed high in their movie tastes...
...Vichy, which had fought Frenchmen and Britons in Syria but refused to fight Japanese in Indo-China, had run out. Officially, the U.S. made it clear that it considered Vichyfrance a partner in, not a victim of, Japan's aggression. Unofficially, restaurants began calling Vichyssoise "De Gaulle soup." There was no question of U.S. "recognition" of Free France, since Free France is not a government, but General de Gaulle's chief civilian aide, tall, gaunt René Pleven, was urging aid under the Lend-Lease Act in order to convince Frenchmen in France that the U.S. is behind...
...Mellon, volunteered for Army service to beat draft deferment because of his age, asked assignment to the cavalry. ∙∙ Ex-Ambassador Joe Kennedy's son, Joe Jr., 25, reported for Navy training as a flying cadet at Squantum, Mass, ∙∙ John T. Dorrance Jr., Campbell Soup heir, who has been getting a $20,000-a-month allowance, began getting another $21 as an Army private...
...planes that will fly faster, higher and farther than anything anyone else can make. In the bomber field, the U.S. is already there. Among the fighters, its P47 may be there, or nearly. At the great horsepower training table, in short, U.S. plane designers are getting plenty of soup, whatever the flavor...
Gluck: Ballet Suite No. 1 (arranged by Felix Mottl) (Boston "Pops" Orchestra conducted by Arthur Fiedler; Victor; 4 sides; $2.50). Stately dances by periwigged Composer Gluck, in a recording as cool and sparkling as jellied soup...