Word: authorship
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Then who should appear on the stage but tall, bouncy Gypsy Rose Lee. She had given up stripteasing for authorship-but you could never be sure, with Gypsy. The camera gave her a nervous glance. Sure enough, as she got well into her song, Psychology of a Stripteaser, she began to pluck at her shoulder. That was enough: the picture wavered and vanished in a hysterical band of jiggling lines. Startled televiewers found themselves staring at nothing but the initials CBS, while in the background, Gypsy's voice trilled on, and enthusiastic Air Force veterans shouted the traditional "Take...
...named Nicholas Roerich, and later, when he became Secretary of Commerce, sent Roerich to Outer Mongolia to do research in grasses. Roerich was the "Guru" (Spiritual Leader) to whom the now famous "Dear Guru" letters, full of mystical fiddle-faddle, were written. Wallace has never either admitted or denied authorship of the letters...
...ostensible excuse for Perón's elevation to the fourth estate was his authorship of a series of newspaper articles setting forth his philosophy in confused prose. (Designed mainly for U.S. readers, the pieces impressed only a handful of U.S. editors.) Those who knew how Perón's rule works found a more convincing explanation. Last week the long established Argentine Federation of Newspapermen, which has refused to knuckle under to Perón, was meeting at Córdoba. By accepting membership in the rival syndicate, President Perón delivered a well understood...
...export. The memo had been put on a table with a pile of official releases, in the Department of Agriculture's Washington newsroom, one day last fall. But there was something phony about it: it had none of the usual headings or signatures. When newsmen questioned its authorship, the Department began investigating and finally traced it to a commodity trader named Ralph W. Moore, onetime lobbyist and crony of Oklahoma's Senator Elmer Thomas, who also likes to speculate in commodities...
...readily admitted authorship of the recordings of his broadcasts which the prosecution played in court. He acknowledged all the counts against him, and he admitted intent to commit each individual act. "If I had it to do over again," he shouted, "I would do it again . . . They can hang me a thousand times, but I was not a traitor...