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...never a nation of soup-makers like the French, and whatever little native soup tradition did exist, largely disappeared after the late Dr. John Thompson Dorrance put soup into a can. For years & years Campbell Soup Co. made virtually all the canned soup sold in the U. S. During Depression, inspired perhaps by repeated press references to the $150,000,000 Dorrance soup estate, other soup-makers belatedly caught on to the profit possibilities of soup...
Though Campbell still sells an over whelming proportion of soup, H. J. ("57 Varieties") Heinz Co. can now claim the perfectly respectable title of No. 2 U. S. soup-maker. George A. Hormel & Co. is No. 3. Heinz and Hormel soups differ from Campbell's in two important respects: 1) they are not condensed, are served without dilution; 2) they cost more. Most Campbell varieties retail for from 10? to 11? per can or three for 25?. Heinz and Hormel soups, which come in larger cans, seldom get below...
...valley where the poppies somehow give off a new blood color to the taproot and make it redder by virtue of the selfsame blood that gave this country birth. And this morning she is there in that manger. Why, she has been feeding all of her babies on oatmeal soup for a week, please God, with the aid of her husband while she lies there without any sort of comfort whatever...
Most generally approved of all the prizes was the award of the $200 Hallgarten Prize "for the best oil painting by a citizen under 35," to Maurice Blumenfeld for a gloomy Daumieresque canvas of three cadaverous men hunched over a table, bolting soup. Citizen Blumenfeld turned out to be a 17-year-old Brooklyn high-school graduate. Though born in France of Russian parents, he was technically eligible to receive the prize since his father has become a naturalized U. S. citizen...
Anniversary of Charles William Eliot's birthday will be celebrated by Eliot House on Thursday. March 19. The celebration will take the form of a "Gaudy", Balliot College's form, for a "blow-out", Eliot's "Gaudy" will be a House dinner, soup served at 7 o'clock sharp...