Word: bacons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Supper was a sad, silent meal one evening last week aboard the ice-locked fur-ship Nanuk off the northeast coast of Siberia. Pilots Joe Crosson and Harold Gillam, flying the Arctic beach in the Amguyema River district, had come back with scraps of twisted metal, a side of bacon and a case of eggs from the wreckage of the plane in which, two and one-half months prior, flyers Carl Ben Eielson and Earl Borland vanished on a flight from Teller, Alaska to the Nanuk with supplies (TIME, Jan. 6). The bodies of Eielson and Borland were...
...Charles I. Williams was the last ecclesiastical personage who held the Great Seal, which was entrusted to him in 1616, when he was dean of Westminster; in 1625, when he was deprived of the former office, he had become Archbishop of York. He was the successor of Francis Bacon as Keeper of the Seal. Williams was not a lawyer, and his appointment was much criticised, but no charges were brought against him in connection with his proceedings as a judge and presumably he became in time reasonably satisfactory. He died in 1650 in his native country of Wales to which...
More versatile than they was their father, the late James Steele MacKaye (1842-94), painter, actor, playwright, producer, lecturer on esthetic philosophy, inventor. His Hazel Kirke (1879) ran longer than any U. S. play until Frank Bacon's Lightnin' (1918). He organized the first U. S. school of expression, originated "harmonic gymnastics," first used over-head lighting in theatres, invented folding theatre chairs...