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Ethel and Charlotte Dorrance, debutante daughters and heiresses of the late Dr. John Thompson Dorrance, almost sole owner of Campbell Soup Co. (TIME, Oct. 13) were badly injured when their automobile skidded, overturned near Philadelphia...
Recently Death, as it must to all men, came to Dr. John Thompson Dorrance, head of Campbell Soup Co. (TIME, Sept. 2, 1929). Last week his heirs heard the terms of a 35-page will. To only son John Thompson Dorrance Jr., 11, will go his father's library (with the proviso it be kept intact until he is 50), his father's grandfather clock, and one-fourth of the estate. Mrs. Ethel Mallinckrodt Dorrance receives a similar portion. Four daughters (Ethel Mallinckrodt, Charlotte Kelcey, Margaret Winifred and Mrs. Nathaniel P. Hill), each receive one- eighth...
Contrary to most current financial wisdom, however, were Dr. Dorrance's instructions to his executors. Urging his estate not to sell Campbell Soup stock, he asked that if "after the greatest deliberation" a sale is ever found necessary, all the stock be sold in one block...
Half way through the soup course, with the high table still vacant of occupants, the diners were plunged into sudden darkness when the lights, which some few moments before had shown a slight uncertainty, went out. This apparently unforeseen failure of the electricity coincided with the entrance of President Lowell, who mounted the platform, a lighted candle in either hand. In another moment the lighting problem had been solved and into the once more gleaming dining room entered the associates of the House. Professor Coolidge the guests of honor, and in the rear, the members of the undergraduate committee. Dinner...
Died. John Thompson Dorrance, Ph. D., 56, president of Campbell Soup Co., a director of Pennsylvania Railroad, Prudential Life Insurance Co., Guaranty Trust Co. of New York, four other companies; after a heart attack, at his home in Cinnaminson, N.J. Dr. Dorrance had degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Gottingen, Germany. But such confidence had he in his canned, condensed soup idea that he went to work at $7.50 a week for a canning company, amassed a fortune of $22,000,000. With the exception of the late King Edward VII he was the only foreigner...