Baldy Bacon – Frank (Baldy) Bacon, American businessman Pound met and befriended in 1910, when he returned to the U.S. for a brief period. Noel Stock relates that Bacon tried to get Pound involved in a “sure investment.” The poet tried to get his father and his Aunt Frank to invest in Bacon’s scheme, without success (Stock 90. See also Moody 128). J. J. Wilhelm states that Pound was trying to start a magazine and was interested in Baldy’s stationery business, adding W. C. Williams’s testimony from his Autobiography that Pound was trying to co-opt him in a scheme to sell an anti-syphilitic drug called 606 (Wilhelm 62). Baldy returned from Havana in September 1906 (Busto 2014). He was 33 at the time.