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...Flashed Columnist Walter Winchell last fortnight of Author Melville Grossman: "That's the nom de typewriter of Producer Darryl Zanuck." It is one of three generated when Zanuck was with Warner Bros. The others: Mark Canfield, Gregory Rogers. Reason: exhibitors objected to plethora of films credited to Darryl Zanuck. (In one year he scripted 19 films...
...Rommel's inner flank was a Fighting French column under one of the heroes of the De Gaullist forces. He was a young Frenchman who was wounded in 1940, twice escaped from the Germans, finally made his way to Fighting French territory in Africa and fought under the nom de guerre of Brigadier General "Jacques Leclerc," apparently to protect relatives in France. Last week his motorized forces, already well over 1,000 miles from their base at Fort Lamy in Chad, seized two Italian posts south of Tripoli. They still had 350 miles to go before they could reach...
...swing fans who hibernate in the Club. For those who are subject to racket making attacks, though, there is a very efficient sedative in the form of one named Red. When better men are built they most certainly will resemble Red the Bouncer. His official nom de plume is bartender, but when he shakes a cocktail, it's only to develop his biceps. At one o'clock the waitresses make the rounds collecting the empty glasses and bottles and Red makes the rounds collecting coat collars which he assists down the stairs. and thus the Stag Club closes...
...recordings. The customer was a rich young Manhattan game-chicken and hot fan named Colin Campbell. Campbell's combination, released under a Commodore Music Shop label, includes Clarinetist Pee Wee Russell, Guitarist Eddie Condon and, most notably, Fats Waller. Because of his Victor contract, Waller uses the nom de piano of Maurice, his nine-year-old son. His improvisations and ad lib choruses have much more sound invention than he ordinarily waxes for Victor. Of the four sides of jam and jazz classics, Georgia Grind provides most Waller, most listening...
Entitled "U-Boat", the story was signed "HRH," which is believed to be a nom de plume for Rumpot Du Beele '40, Ibis on the Mt. Auburn Street almanac. Robeson Bailey '29, English instructor who graded the paper, is an ex-president of the Advocate...