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...name are men as different as Mark Twain (a whole-hog Baconian), Sigmund Freud (he rooted for the Earl of Oxford), Bismarck, Walt Whitman, Oliver Wendell Holmes. In 1931, Britain's Gilbert Slater caused a flutter by declaring that Shakespeare was a seven-man syndicate consisting of Francis Bacon, Sir Walter Raleigh, Lady Pembroke, Christopher Marlowe and the Earls of Oxford, Derby, Rutland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Whodunit? | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

...nightmare pictures. Burra's brush can turn a gin mill into an outpost of hell, a whore into a rapacious owl, a bottle into an imp with one malignant eye peering from the lip. Now a birdlike, tattered little man of 50, Burra rivals his compatriot Francis Bacon (TIME, Oct. 19, 1953) as a shock dispenser. His latest collection of watercolors, on view last week at Boston's Swetzoff Gallery, bowled over even the blasé Brahmins of Beacon Hill and led the Boston Herald to call him "a poet of the underworld...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Shock Dispenser | 5/30/1955 | See Source »

Both Varick M. Bacon '55, writer of music for next fall's show, and Theatrical President Robert F. R. Ballard '56 said last night that felt the inclusion of female in the east would increase the quality of the 108th production, "The Golden Fleecer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 108th Pudding May Include Females in Show Next Year | 5/25/1955 | See Source »

...past four or five years the trend in Pudding musicals has been away from the traditional skit to the integrated musical comedy," bacon pointed out. "Therefore, it has seemed to make sense to produce this type of musical in as realistic and entertaining a fashion as possible. And this would include the use of girls," he added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 108th Pudding May Include Females in Show Next Year | 5/25/1955 | See Source »

...Problem is bucking the 107-year tradition of the so-called hairy-legged chorus line," Bacon continued. He indicated that the proposed move has the strong support of professional critics and was either warmly welcomed or vehemently opposed among graduate contacted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 108th Pudding May Include Females in Show Next Year | 5/25/1955 | See Source »

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