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...sudden and unexpected death of a senior scientist at Britain's top-secret germ-warfare laboratory cried out for explanation. The first War Office announcement only stimulated curiosity. It was possible, said a cautious official spokesman, that Geoffrey Bacon, 44, had been killed by "an accidental infection resulting from his work." A post mortem examination two days later revealed the full horror of what had happened. Researcher Bacon had been a victim of pneumonic plague, a form of the fiercely contagious Black Death that ravaged Europe in the Middle Ages, slaughtering millions and depopulating whole cities...
...government promptly alerted health officers in southern England to a possible outbreak of the dread disease. Bacon's widow and two daughters, and a dozen friends from the Microbiological Laboratory near Salisbury where he worked, were all under rigid medical surveillance, and all were getting dosed with antibiotics. So were 30 members of the staff at Odstock Hospital, where Bacon died. It was left to a War Office board of inquiry to try to determine just how a man with ten years' laboratory experience had contracted his fatal infection...
...traces, Brook was painting ancient statuary at Pratt Institute; at 17 he enrolled at the Art Students League where in time he became a member of the faculty. Life became a succession of successes. He had close and congenial friends in Painters Niles Spencer, Louis Bouché and Peggy Bacon (whom he married in 1920), and every year seemed to bring on a new academic fellowship or another award. Until the tidal wave of abstract art inundated the galleries, no show of contemporary U.S. art seemed complete without an Alexander Brook...
...entire enterprise is, I fear, as ill-fated as that of the other American lady, Delia Bacon, who "proved" a century ago that Shakespeare's plays were really written by Francis Bacon. Bacon has now simply become Bachon...
...cents) -- a dish which Milty ought to know it itself about as "Authentic" as Dr. Fred Schwarz's Christian Crusade. And this is not to mention, of course, the Kishke (15 cents) or the "Break-the-House Breakfast Special," which offers orange juice, three eggs, three strips of bacon or ham, home fries, toast and two cups of coffee for 99 cents. Or the free bowls of pickles and potato chips on every table. Or even the Chicken-in-a in-a-Basket (85 cents...