Word: bacons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wood replaces Donald D. Bacon '62. a third-year student at the GSAS, who has served as Eliot's senior tutor for two years. Wood, who lived in Eliot as an undergraduate and was captain of the lacrosse team here, was assistant senior tutor at the House last year...
...incident, which took place in rolling, heavily jungled country in the Song Chang river valley, 30 miles south of Danang, came to light accidentally. Associated Press Photographer Horst Faas happened to be sitting in Lieut. Colonel Robert C. Bacon's 3rd Battalion headquarters when it occurred. The brief episode spanned less than an hour, and it directly involved six of Company A's 60 men: five fatigued and panicky G.I.s and Lieut. Eugene Shurtz Jr., 26, a green company commander whose basic error, as another officer put it, was that "he tried to reason with the men when...
Early in the battle, Bacon's predecessor as battalion commander, Lieut. Colonel Eli P. Howard Jr., was killed when his helicopter was shot down; seven others died with him, including A.P. Photographer Oliver Noonan. The 3rd Battalion troops, including Alpha Company, set out to fight their way to the crash site. In temperatures that rose to well over 100° F. in the heavy, stale air trapped among the hills, Alpha Company experienced its first violent contact with the enemy, suffering three dead and two wounded in a fierce firefight at the foot of a low hill called...
...lived today, Job would undoubtedly be a fan of the New York Mets. So would Sir Francis Bacon ("Adversity is not without comforts and hopes"). So is anyone with the slightest sympathy for the underdog, the smallest shred of a sense of futility, the least understanding of how it feels to lose, and lose, and lose...
...forthrightly, "I've always been furious at the world." Born in Providence, Mrs. Beerman studied under Yasuo Kuniyoshi at Manhattan's Art Students League before taking off to France to immerse herself in Goya, the German expressionists, and (as her painting style shows) Britain's Francis Bacon. She is fascinated by the "natural world," and has done a series of paintings on fish, bats, owls. At the moment, she is preoccupied with lizards, which, she says, "look like man in certain stages. The drippings you'll find in my paintings are characteristic of the mire...