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...Union. But its career of influence really began after the Civil War when the Free Press (a violent anti-Slavery paper) was edited by William E. Quinby. In the 44 years of his control, Editor Quinby developed the late Charles B. Lewis, whose humor made famous the nom de plume "M. Quad." Poet Guest he hired as an office boy. Robert Barr ("Luke Sharp") worked for him many a year before going to London to found The Idler with Jerome K. Jerome. The paper ceased to be the DEMOCRATIC Free Press in 1806 when it repudiated the nomination of William...
...this time that he became AE. He wrote under the pseudonym of Aeon, but because of his illegible handwriting the typesetters on the papers to which his first efforts were contributed, unable to read the signature, printed only the first two letters. He has kept this nom de plume ever since...
Onetime Senator James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. of New York was the plume in the Wet Athene's helmet last week. He cried: "Senator Fess . . . cannot see what is going on in this country. Tears dim his sight. . . . Does the Senator think we can carry Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Illinois and a half-dozen other States whose people spoke last week on this question . . . [and] hope to cajole repeal-Republicans, millions of good men & women, into an attitude of complacency concerning the thing they regard as vital...
...months ago the passing of Professor Leopold Auer left vacant the title of "greatest teacher of the violin." The late great Hungarian? taught Efrem Zimbalist, Mischa Elman, Jascha Heifetz. Who would most worthily wear his plume? Last week in Manhattan the Juilliard Graduate School of Music appointed as his successor Louis Persinger, teacher of the contemporary child prodigies Yehudi Menuhin and Ruggiero Ricci...
...that are bound to end in frustration and nervous disappointment. With a tact that the present generation does not deserve; Miss Hahn starts out on the long task of explanation and illustration. The terrifying suspicion grows upon one as she pro-Broadway entrepreneur masquerading under a feminine nom de plume, or, b) a former Hollywood houri with a degree of experience it is inconvenient even to imagine...