Word: bacon
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...music for Love Rides the Rails by Varick Bacon and Victor Ziskin is uneven. Two show-stopping numbers, "Rag-Time Rosie" and "Friends" seem to redeem much of his material which generally lacks originality. Lyrics by Jay Cavior are quite clever. Choreographer Dolly Niggemeyer had little dancing talent to work with, but seems to have produced remarkable results--nothing fancy, but a varied and pleasing design. The outstanding freshness, which pervades throughout the production, may well have been stimulated by the originality of Webster Lithgow's truly inventive settings. Their informality and unobtrusiveness typifies a very relaxing and enjoyable production...
...Congressman Robert Low Bacon died, and the G.O.P. bosses tapped Hall to replace him. That November Hall won the first of seven successive terms in the House of Representatives. In 1941 he was one of 21 Republicans who crossed party lines to vote for the Selective Service Extension Act-which was passed by a single vote. "In questions of war and peace," says Hall, "if you think your party is wrong, you must vote your conscience...
...Tennyson manuscripts are part of a wide variety of other works in English and American literature and history recently acquired by the Houghton Library, Jackson said. Earlier this week, the library announced the acquisition of rare editions of Bacon, Locke, Hobbes, Erasmus, Dante, and other early writers...
Rare editions of such writers as Dante, John Locke, Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes and Erasmus have been added to the Houghton Library's collection of valuable books and manuscripts...
Dante is represented by a copy of the rare 1508 first edition of a discussion of the two elements "water and earth." Another Houghton addition is a copy of the first English translation of Francis Bacon's "Advancement of Learning...