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...spoken to the young Hispanic author. Last week the reason for his invisibility became clear. He is really Daniel James, 73, a Kansas City-bred, Andover-and Yale-educated Anglo, who was a Hollywood screenwriter before being blacklisted by McCarthyites in 1951. James took on his ethnic nom de plume (Santiago is used in Spanish for James) shortly after he and his wife began a 25-year stint as social workers in predominantly Chicano East Los Angeles. James says that his intention was never to deceive but simply "to write about Mexicans from the inside. I wasn't trying...
...born author is a long way (100 million books sold worldwide) from his 1937 start. But he still puts in eight hours a day, five days a week at his desk, although the desk now overlooks the Pacific from the dream house he helped design. Geisel, whose nom de plume is an amalgam of his mother's maiden name and a self-bestowed doctorate, "which came from the fact that I saved my father $25,000 by dropping out of Oxford," next plans a nonsense book. He is also working on a Broadway play for adults, and this year...
...Financial Journalist George J.W. Goodman, who writes under the nom de plume Adam Smith, observed in The Money Game, a 1968 analysis of the stock market: "Really big money is not made in the stock market by outside investors. I am talking about multiples of millions rather than just, say, one lousy million. Who makes the really big money? The inside stockholders of a company do, when the market capitalizes the earnings of that company ... I am not making any value judgments. This is the way things...
...distrust is very real and all we can do is slog along and be straightforward." But he has a lot to overcome. One of Pat Smith's anti-nuclear-power buttons reads THEY LIE; the I is in the shape of a cooling tower with a menacing plume escaping from...
DIED. Georges Remi (nom de plume: Hergé), 75, Belgian artist-creator of the internationally known comic-strip chronicles of Tin tin, the perennially youthful and sparky reporter-adventurer who first appeared in a Brussels newspaper and went on to star in 23 books that have sold 80 million copies in 30 languages and enchanted three generations of children; in Brussels...