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...Chekhonte," the pseudonym under which he wrote comic stories. It was not until 1887, with the staging of his play Ivanov, that the public knew the author as A.P. Chekhov. Reviewers were generally hostile; "a flippantly cynical piece of foolishness, foul and immoral," said the man from the Muscovite Newssheet. But with the appearance of the story The Steppe in 1888, Chekhov was compared with Tolstoy and Gogol...
...French Sureté, and at 18 was shipped off to the penal colony on Poulo Condore archipelago in the South China Sea, the Asian equivalent of Devil's Island. Two more jail terms followed, interspersed with propaganda work; from 1939 to 1945, he edited a clandestine pro-Communist newssheet in Son La penitentiary. Thuy was later rewarded with the editorship of Cuu Quoc (National Salvation), the organ of the insurgent Viet Minh...
HERE IS THE ENEMY, read the headline in the monthly newssheet (circ. 65,000) of the White Citizens' Councils of America. Inside a black-bordered box were listed 74 "organizations appearing in House and Senate committee records as favoring 'civil rights' and anti-South force legislation during 1957 and 1959." Among them: Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, American Veterans Committee, Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, N.A.A.C.P., Catholic Interracial Council, the Protestant Episcopal Church, Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World, the Methodist Church, United Automobile...
...ended, they had the use of a library (Balzac, Hugo, etc.). and were allowed to play tennis with crude rackets and a thin rubber ball. Lieut. Cameron, a handy man with an accordion, wangled a cheap Russian model and taught the others to play. They got a daily Communist newssheet, full of propaganda, but saw only one American periodical in all their months of imprisonment: every week, Lieut. Cameron received from his brother, Bob, 21, a copy of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED which the Chinese passed on after inspecting it carefully and clipping out some of the articles...
This pectorally perfect pucelle (see cut) posed for a picture, a true reproduction of which we are pleased to present to your exceedingly readable newssheet...