Word: bacons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ROSE - Thomas B. Costain - Doubleday, Doran ($3). To write this historical romance Author Costain, a Doubleday editor, read or consulted over 500 books, hired a Chinese scholar and a research worker who could read medieval Latin and French. The background is laid in the murky, turgid England of Roger Bacon, the fabulous silk-&-spice Orient of Kublai Khan. An impoverished young bastard of noble blood leaves Oxford to seek his fortune in far Cathay. Here he meets the Khan's famed general, Bayan of the Hundred Eyes, and forgets the haughty girl at home in favor of the harem...
...Observed the 17th Century's apothegmatic Sir Francis Bacon: "Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses...
Home with the Bacon. At his press conference, a surge of searching questions was unloosed. The President acknowledged that there were still many "ifs." But the arrangements had been made for solution of the Polish Government problem. There was progress, and he hoped for results. He hoped the apple cart would not be upset. He cautioned the press not to muddy the waters...
...President also made known his desire to take with him the strongest possible evidence of U.S. leadership in a world organization. He would fly out ftiis week for the charter's completion at San Francisco and will fly back with the bacon at once. He would like Senate ratification in a hurry, so that be could pack a TT.S.approved world charter into his overseas luggage...
Discouraging Pots. Even more discouraging were pots & pans (favorite collectors' items despite the sharp, post-V-E-day cut in meat, milk, bacon, fats and sugar rations).* In Petticoat Lane is one of the best places to find kitchenware, hairpins and hair-curlers, a small enamel dishpan costs about...