Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Detroit physician named Orville Owen went so overboard on his own cipher theory that he declared Bacon was not only Shakespeare but also such authors as Marlowe, Edmund Spenser and Robert Burton. Another Baconian found his inspiration in the fact that both Bacon and Shakespeare used the word honorificabili-tudinitatibus. He divided the word into two parts, spelled the first backward (BACIFIRONOH), declared this to be an anagram for FR BACONO. From the rest of the letters, he got HI LUDI TUITI NATI SIBI, which taken all together spelled "These Plays, produced by Francis Bacon, guarded for themselves...
Cocker Caravan. Calling her Margaret Lydia McGlashan Burton instead of Janet Gray, the FBI arrested her, following charges that she had embezzled some $100,000 in two years from the cashbox of the Decatur Clinic. They also arrested Westminster's Candy, who turned out to be not Margaret's niece but her daughter, Sheila Joy Burton...
...Philip Burton has staged Parts I and V admirably. But if this show is to survive on Broadway, he will have to be more inventive in Parts III and IV to compensate for Shaw's sagging script. Marvin Reiss's sets and John Boyt's costumes are quite adequate, and Paul Leaf has achieved some handsome silhouettes and stunning lighting...
...July 1 spread on "The Nine Justices" lists Baptist Warren, Baptist Black, Presbyterian Douglas, Unitarian Burton, Presbyterian Clark, Presbyterian Harlan, Roman Catholic Brennan, Methodist Whittaker and Indefatigable Felix Frankfurter. Is Justice Frankfurter a Northern, Southern, Missouri or United Indefatigable...
...second of Tuesday morning's sessions, Burton Fowler, Consultant to the Fund for the Advancement of Education, struck a similar note when he discussed "The Human Side of Education...