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...Slight Odor. Setting up bachelor quarters in a windmill, Friedman went to work and in time was put in charge of a project by which the colonel, among others, hoped to prove by cipher that Sir Francis Bacon had written the entire works of Shakespeare (see FOREIGN NEWS). After achieving this lofty honor, Friedman married one of the colonel's as sistant cipher clerks, Elizabeth Smith. As World War I loomed on the European horizon, the impulsive colonel learned with a start that the U.S. Government had no cryptologists whatever. With scarcely a by-your-leave, he offered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: Secret Weapons | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

Unfortunately, the third party in this triangle has the unpromising role of a dashing young man on the intellectual trapeze who does not even get the bacon at the end. Louis Jourdan does little to salvage the part. He is, however, overshadowed by better acting in the smaller parts, especially by Estelle Winwood, who plays Grace's Aunt Synphorosa with the wit one would expect from Guinness...

Author: By Michael G. Mayer, | Title: The Swan | 5/2/1956 | See Source »

...Bacon rolled on a strip of aluminum foil, so that it can be unrolled like tape (Aluminum Co. of America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: Packaged Progress | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

Francis L. Bacon '56, Roger S. Cortesi '56, John G. Davis '58, Lee M. Folger '56, Benjamin H. Heckscher '57, Martin A. Heckscher '56, Charlton MacVeagh, Jr., '57, Robert C. Milton '56 (captain), H. Calvin Place '57, Lawrence B. Sears '58, Landon Thomas, Jr. '56, Werner R. H. Genieser '56 (manager...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 259 Receive Winter Sports Awards | 4/21/1956 | See Source »

Edmund N. Bacon, executive director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission discussed "Philadelphia: Neighborhood Projects and Penn Center." He stressed the need for integration of architecture, city planning and administration in designing a program for a city...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sert Stresses Human Dignities In Urban Design, Redevelopment | 4/10/1956 | See Source »

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