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...recall the Earl Carroll trial some time ago. The State spent much money and time trying to convince a jury that one Faith Bacon was inadequately clothed. I felt the police department had been inefficient. The extent of Miss Bacon's drapings could have been photographed and all the verbal testimony rendered unnecessary. For that reason I selected soon after a nearby theatre, the Columbia (burlesque) and took several shots, one of which is accompanying this letter. It is convincing, I believe, as to the extent of the lady's trappings or lack of them. All censors should...
...Francis Bacon took all knowledge to be his province, but though his ambition was large his achievement was a little provincial. Herbert George Wells, in spite of all temptations to remain an English novelist, has gone Bacon one better. Wells's syllabus of knowledge, begun with The Outline of History, continued in The Science of Life, is now concluded (he says) in The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind. Disagreeing with Poet Keats.† Wells considers that all you need to know will be found under the heads of history, biology, economics...
...ably filled for more than 34 years, be came the Senate's librarian. When Jim Preston, son of an oldtime New York Herald correspondent, took over the gallery, there were 150 newsmen, with one telephone and no typewriters, covering such Senate giants as Allison, Sherman, Quay, Bacon, Platt. Today 368 correspondents hover in the gallery where Jim Preston has been a sort of Queen Bee. His job: contact man between Senate & Press. He knows and remembers facts, figures, faces, dates, data & doings. When does Senator Borah speak next? What did the Finance Committee do last week? When...
...Although it takes 15,000 to 25,000 cu. ft. of natural gas to do the work of one ton of coal, according to George I. Rhodes, gas engineer of the engineering firm of Ford, Bacon & Davis, gas has already supplanted 10% of the 475,000,000 tons of bituminous coal annually mined...
...Attorney for New York Henry Lewis Stimson (now Secretary of State) to prosecute for criminal libel. From Dr. William H. Wilmer Biographer Pringle learned that the President went blind in his left eye in 1908 and "not more than a half dozen people knew it." Mrs. Robert Bacon helped fill in the blank spots on the first Roosevelt marriage. Here and there are footnoted a few "confidential sources" but none of large historical importance...