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...week. The debutant, a shy, gentle man with a Pinocchio-sized nose, was the Washington Post's cartoonist, Herbert Lawrence Block, 40. He had won a Pulitzer Prize (1942), but he'd never seen anything like this. Eyeing the 194 cartoons, all signed with the economy-size pen name (Herblock), one dowager gushed to Block: "There's a complete timelessness about your cartoons. They'll last, I think, for at least ten years...
Emmanuel, according to Professor Breunig, is actually a Catholic mystic poet who is aligned with the Christian Socialists, a liberal movement opposed to both Capitalism and Communism: The name Pierre Emmanuel is a pen-name, symbolic of "the rock upon which his faith is founded" (Pierre) and God With Us (Emmanuel). (Pierre Emmanuel's original, and still legal name is Noel Mathieu...
Without doubt, the Delaneys have a family dilemma worthy of the pen...
...youth, Price was always making things. He learned early "from a guy just out of the pen" to weave horsehair watch chains. He made a fiddle and played at dances ("I really could bow!"). He sketched constantly, finally got to art school at 31, attended both night & day classes and won a gold medal. His instructors, he remembers, were reluctant even to discuss such subjects as "that modern Whistler." He made a success illustrating Wild West magazine stories, gave it up some 30 years ago to experiment with the freewheeling painting he does now. To live while he learned...
...second glance this impression seems false. Little Miss Goudge (rhymes with Scrooge) is one of the most prolific and popular novelists now wielding a pen; with the help of the Literary Guild, her Green Dolphin Street (1944) and Pilgrim's Inn (1948) sold more than a million copies each. Yet in a deeper sense Novelist Goudge is just what she seems: a middle-aged Victorian lady with genteel literary inclinations...