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...England (''the locomotives are only about thirty-four inches around the bust"), but came to like the homey atmosphere it gave. Oppressed by ''that death-in-life which the Britons . . . like to call English reserve," she nevertheless liked its complement, "the cream-of-mushroom-soup texture" of English leisureliness. And reserved children, after her friends' progressive-school brats, were a relief...
...three blood transfusions and five days under an oxygen tent; at Orange, N. J. When told that his blood transfusions were injections of salt, impatient Tony, tired of being flat on his back with "this ammonia," growled: "Why can't Mary [his wife] put the salt in the soup instead of punching me full of holes like a free ticket to a fight." ¶ Seattle's Al Hostak, 22-year-old pugilist: the middleweight championship of the world; by knocking out Champion Freddie Steele of Tacoma, in less than two minutes; before 35,000 astonished spectators; at Seattle...
When, in 1930, Death came to John Thompson Dorrance, president and 94% owner of Campbell Soup Co., he left an estate valued at approximately $115,000.000. After long legal battles, two State inheritance taxes as well as a Federal tax were levied on the Dorrance kitty. Pennsylvania got $14,500,000; New Jersey another whopping $15,500,000. Last week, when the estate's value was finally approved by New Jersey's Orphans' Court, the Dorrance heirs (Widow Ethel and five children) found that, despite death. Depression and taxes, their fortune was bigger than ever before...
...actually getting out the Nutmeg. First issue revealed that the Nutmeg will be highly departmentalized. Columnist Broun will write Nature Notes. Stanley High's Americana starts off as a gossip column. Ursula Parrott's column. This and That, suggests baked grapefruit as a change from soup and shellfish cocktails. John Erskine's regular department will be Men's Furnishings ("The belt question grows acute. . . ."), but for the first issue Mr. Erskine also contributes an editorial on relief and a timely piece on "A Central School for Poundridge." Uncommonly elegant sportswriting comes from sports editor Gene Tunney...
...survey, or vegetable soup course, is probably the greatest of these. Such courses as Government 1 are harmful to the student in three ways. They give him the blissful illusion, common among undergraduates at the University of Chicago, that he is acquiring the sum of all knowledge, when in reality he is being given only a few insubstantial generalities. They destroy the personalized education, traditional at Harvard, either by large lectures or by section meetings so large that they degenerate into lectures. Thirdly, by demanding little thought and only stereotyped, parrot replies, they send the student, not to Widener...