Word: bacons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shean in left, the newcomer Soltz in right and Gannett in the center garden. To date Paul Doyle is leading the fight for the Varsity catching berth and has been connecting regularly at the plate. Not out of the running for the back stop post are Chief Boston, Ellie Bacon, and Bob Fulton...
With Captain Lupien on first base, the regulars infield lineup with Art Johns on second, Dick Grondahl at short, and Dick Ulin on the hot corner. Ellie Bacon was behind the plato receiving the slants of Lefty Edinberg...
Heaviest hitter of the day was Bacon who caught hold of two Ingalls pitches for a perfect day at the play. Lupien, in his second day of practice after the basketball season, didn't have his usual eye, but did beat out a bunt. Johns...
Ignatius Donnelly was known in his own day as the foremost exponent of the Baconian theory (that Bacon wrote Shakespeare). Author of an emphatic volume that traced civilization's origins to a vanished continent (Atlantis: The Antediluvian World), Donnelly would have been a queer bird in any aviary. But he seemed still queerer against his own hard-working background of Niniger, Minn., and his writings were all the more exceptional in view of his political career. Lieutenant governor of Minnesota when he was 28, Donnelly was a Republican Congressman at 32, held that post throughout the Civil...
...going to dances, hearing Negro choirs, fighting a forest fire, chatting with a Georgia chain gang that dug a path for their busses through a landslide. Most fun, however, was a two-taste of farm life in Georgia's Habersham County. After a hearty breakfast of grits, bacon & eggs and biscuits covered with ham gravy and corn syrup, the boys and girls went forth into the fields to string barbed wire fences, lime the ground, scrape roads, chop trees, split logs, ride mules, barbecue a pair of pigs, drive a tractor (until Student Katy Sprackling broke it). They astonished...