Word: pseudonym
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...books published about Charles de Gaulle, the most engrossing may well be a little biography for children, complete with charming drawings and simple text. Yet the unknown author, writing under the pseudonym Xavier Arito-marchi, laces his pabulum with Tabasco. "La France est a moi," says young Charles as he plays soldiers, grabbing the French poilus for himself, while forcing his brothers to take the Ger man and English sides. There is another happy scene of Charles playing pyramid-standing on a shield held by his playmates. And on and on. The caption, beside a picture of De Gaulle nestled...
...jungle." Aboard were Augie Martin, a black American pilot earning a little extra money while on vacation from Seaboard World Airlines; Martin's wife Gladys, whom McGuire thinks had come along to gather material for an article on Biafra; Jess Meade, also an American; and a Rhodesian with the pseudonym of "Bill Brown." Mr. Martin's head was never found, McGuire says, so "the missionaries buried what they could find of him." "Bill Brown" reportedly had a wife and family in Rhodesia, who are vainly attempting to collect the money he deposited in a bank under his real name...
...knee and was out of action for eight months. By contrast, 1967 was a banner year for Jesse Kuhaulua, a 24-year-old from the Hawaiian island of Maui. Of Polynesian-Spanish ancestry, he stands 6 ft. 4 in., weighs in at 315 Ibs. and wrestles under the pseudonym of Takamiyama ("High-View Mountain"). He is the first foreigner with no Japanese blood to be promoted to makuuchi-sumo's big leagues. In all Japan, only 34 wrestlers hold the rank of makuuchi...
...poorest family in New Jerusalem is headed by Silas Miller (a pseudonym). Miller is never too sure how many people live in his house, or even how many children he has. It doesn't matter; it's obviously too many. Usually there are about 23 people--half of them Miller's children, the rest an assortment of relatives, neighbors, and "little fellers we just couldn't turn away"--living in the one-room house...
FIRE! by John Roc, pseudonym for a new American playwright. An allegory about angst...