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...caught on the run, socialites now hold late-afternoon cocktail parties and buffet suppers, where busy guests can pop in for a quick one, instead of formal parties. One of the most popular functions is an open-house buffet luncheon served every day by Mrs. Robert Low Bacon, widow of the late New York Congressman, in her mansion near the War and State Departments...
...students receiving commissions as Ensign, United States Naval Reserve, were: William E. Albers, Brookline; Berrien P. Anderson, Jr., San Rafael, Calif.; Guy N. Bacon, Westbury, L. L., N. Y.; Peter Black, Boston; Robert B. Black, Waban; Rodney Boynton, Scarsdale, N. Y.; John T. Burr, Needham; Alfred T. Conlin, Lawrence; George C. Cunningham, Jr., Milton; William C. Dias, Cambridge; David M. Ewing, Boston...
...Mother Hubbard's cupboard. Several days before the 30th anniversary of his accession to the throne, King Christian X ruled that no celebrations be held in his honor. In the once dairy-rich country there was still some milk- but most of it was skimmed. Eggs, butter and bacon, onetime Danish standbys, were scarce as hens' teeth. Thousands of Danes had been exiled to enforced labor in Germany. Two years of German domination had really brought the New Order to Denmark...
...backers, no imported stars; it keeps to its promise of "no performances of hackneyed works." Instead it has put on with local talent such rarities as Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, Mozart's Requiem. So last week, again festival time in Spartanburg, saw the production of Ernst Bacon's A Tree on the Plains...
Members of the cast included the choirmaster of the First Baptist Church, two Converse College students, a voice teacher, a movie usher, a private at nearby Camp Croft. Local, too, was the composer, for dark, rugged Ernst Bacon, 43, is dean of the music school at Spartanburg's Converse College, and the guiding spirit of the festivals. A Chicago-born musician who has won a Pulitzer music award and two Guggenheim fellowships, Bacon has composed sensitive songs, witty orchestral works, tuneful light music. Last year the League of Composers commissioned him to compose the second* opera under its Composers...