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When lectures came on Saturdays-during which Orthodox Jews are forbidden to work, ride in a vehicle or talk on the phone-Abe would have a friend put a sheet of carbon paper under his lecture notes and hope he remembered to use a ballpoint pen. Sabbath restrictions begin on Friday night, just before sundown, and on occasional Fridays only a lucky break in the traffic has saved him from having to abandon his 1952 De Soto and walk the rest of the way home. On Saturdays Abe was not on duty, but sometimes, to follow...
Died. Sax Rohmer (pen name for Arthur Sarsfield Ward), about 76, creator of 20th century English fiction's most durable villain: Fu Manchu; after long illness ; in London. Modeled on a mysterious Chinese Rohmer spotted one night in 1913 in the Limehouse fog, wily, sinister Fu Manchu outwitted his Anglo-Saxon pursuers in and out of 13 books and the most exotic parts of the world, assembled a memorable team of Oriental ogres to dispose of his victims, lured such connoisseurs of evil as Boris Karloff and Warner (Charlie Chan) Oland to portray him on screen, almost died horribly...
...York streets. A plumber, on music: "I mean to me when there's music I'll stop anything; without music, I mean I don't think there'd be life-there would be no world.'' A Times Square pitchman selling a pen: "If my physiognomy is not too conspicuous to be comprehended, I'm gonna clarify . . . You can write Yiddish, you can write English, you can print, you can sketch with this very same pen...
...name and under eleven pen names, Wordsmith Creasey has published 366 novels, many of them whodunits, which have sold more than 18 million copies in the last 29 years. Creasey often turns out a 60,000-word novel in six days, has written as many as 15 a year. Asked to give an explanation for the rate of production, he once modestly replied: "I can type with only two fingers...
...will of English-born Doggerelist Robert W. Service, dead at 85 last year in Monte Carlo, disclosed last week that in succumbing to The Spell of the Yukon (published in 1907), Service successfully mined a heap of gold with his pen. His net estate...