Word: noms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once they were the undisputed mistresses of the world's greatest commercial waterway. They still evoke memories of a long-departed era that Mark Twain -whose very nom de plume is derived from navigation terminology of the day -described in Life on the Mississippi. Today the great paddle-wheeling river steamboat is a species almost as endangered as the whooping crane-and likewise protected by the Government. The last wooden-decked steamboat, the 50-year-old Delta Queen, plies the 1,500 miles of river from Cincinnati to New Orleans under a special congressional exemption from the federal safety...
...that had a clientele to match (the 1945 United Nations conference was one of her busiest seasons). But in 1947 Sally went legit, opened a restaurant in Sausalito and got interested in politics. After four failed races for city council under the name of Marsha Owen, she resumed her nom de nuit in 1972 and swept to victory; last week her council colleagues elected her mayor. "The people voted for me because I've got common sense," said Sally, adding that it's high time folks stopped hounding her former profession too. "They ought to put the cops...
...Skelton estate in Bel Air, which features a rock pool stocked with exotic fish, an aviary full of rare birds, peacocks and llamas stalking the lawn. But the twice-divorced Gordy is frequently on the move, traveling under an assumed name. Last week, under the nom d'entrepreneur D. Thompson, he barely paused in mid-career to count himself "pleased" with having made a woman's picture at a time when male stars dominate the screen. He does admit to being "thrilled" by Mahogany's fast getaway at the box office. As ever, Berry Gordy...
...most of the war, Western and South Vietnamese analysts have known little more about the elusive field commander of the Viet Cong than that he called himself Tran Nam Trung. Actually, Nam Trung is a nom de guerre meaning "south central" (after the portion of Indochina more commonly known as South Viet Nam) and has probably been used at various times by at least three commanders, a fact that has caused endless confusion. Even after Tran Van Tra publicly emerged in 1973 as the Communists' top general in the South, many experts were still not sure that...
...Eric Blair" suits him. The crisp syllables suggest a Briton of spare style and countenance. But he despised his real name; it smacked, somehow, of Aryanism and privilege. So he cloaked his origins in a common-sounding nom de plume. His disguise became him, and at last he became his disguise. Today the world remembers him only as George Orwell, seer of the future imperfect. Neither name nor reputation is quite correct...