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Boob tube, idiot box, or whatever else people call it, television is responsible for the bacon David Brinkley, 43, brings home, and the ham-on-wry commentator felt moved to pay homage to its glories. But what to say? "Television," he finally advised some University of North Carolina students, "is the only thing in the world that is punctual." People, planes and trains are late, he continued thoughtfully, but TV is on time. "It may be lousy, but it's on time...
Prisoners are fed at six and six. The morning meal consists of three cold biscuits. The whites are served first, (theirs may be warm--I don't know), a strip of "streak-o'-lean" bacon, and a tablespoon of cane syrup. Supper is one slab of cornbread (cold again), rice, and red beans. Prisoners are given a mattress and a blanket upon arrival, to be returned upon release. No uniforms are issued and neither are packages of fresh clothing permitted...
...service secretaries sabotaged his efforts by going over his head to Congress and the press. Better-read than any other Cabinet member and able to quote from Bagehot, Marx and Kant, Forrestal irritated Truman by constantly giving him advice and recommending appointments. "He was a Cabinet Francis Bacon who took the whole political world for his province," writes Rogow. He especially angered Truman by arguing long and hard against the creation of the state of Israel because he thought the U.S. oil supply in the Middle East would be jeopardized...
GUGGENHEIM-Fifth Ave. at 89th. Francis Bacon's tragic views of humans great and lowly. Through Jan. 12. Also on view: 20th century drawings by such masters as Munch, Picasso, Matisse, Pollock, De Kooning, Motherwell, Tobey and others. Through...
...Ghosts. Shakespeare, had he attended the Roman opening, might well have attributed the play to Francis Bacon. But Zeffirelli unashamedly claims that he has "found a vivid portrait acceptable to the layman, to the nonintellectual, to workmen, to taxi drivers. Our Hamlet can be identified by contemporary humanity...