Word: pseudonymous
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When Poet George William Russell was a young man in Victorian Dublin, he wrote a philosophic article under the pseudonym "Æon." The printer mangled it, and Æon came out Æ. For the rest of his life, Russell wrote under that diphthong. Outdistanced as a poet by such contemporaries as Thomas Hardy and William Butler Yeats, Æ culled through his verses not long before his death (in 1935) and selected 124 that he hoped he might be remembered for. Last week his Selected Poems achieved the semiclassic permanence of republication in the Golden Treasury Series (Macmillan; $1.25), along with...
Died. Charles Fulton Oursler, 59, best-selling author (The Greatest Story Ever Told, The Greatest Book Ever Written), newspaper columnist ("A Modern Parable" in 65 papers), playwright (The Spider), whodunit writer (under the pseudonym Anthony Abbott), editor in chief (1931-42) of Liberty magazine, editorial, boss (1941) of all Macfadden Publications, and (since 1944) a senior editor of Reader's Digest; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Once an agnostic, Oursler visited Palestine in 1935 and wrote A Skeptic in the Holy Land ("I started out being very skeptical, but in the last chapter I was nearly converted"). Eight...
Chambers' next boss in the underground was a Hungarian Communist, J. Peters, who switched Chamber' party pseudonym from Bob to Carl and shifted him from New York to Washington. To Chambers, Peters "enlarged on the party's organizational and human resources in Washington, mentioning, among others, the man whose name he always pronounced 'Awl-jur'-with a kind of drawling pleasure, for he took an almost parental pride in Alger Hiss. Then, with a little inclusive wave of his pudgy hand, he summed up. 'Even in Germany under the Weimar Republic,' said Peters...
Arthur's attempts to get it over with are the subject of Doting, the ninth novel by Henry Yorke, the British manufacturer of brewery equipment who writes under the pseudonym of Henry Green...
...Party, was Minister of Justice in the recent Pleven government. At 43, he is France's youngest Premier since 1893. The son of an army surgeon, he became a lawyer at 19, later an expert in Russian and other Slavic languages, married a literary wife and, under a pseudonym, wrote three detective novels himself. Faure fled occupied France to join General Charles de Gaulle's Free French in 1943, became the movement's assistant secretary general, and came back to win a seat in the Assembly after...