Word: pseudonym
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...publishers were wary of overkill, he submitted five other novels under another name. When Richard Bachman's cover was blown, after Thinner climbed aboard the best-seller list, the pretense was shelved. "It should have been in TIME's Milestones," King grumbles. "Died. Richard Bachman, of cancer of the pseudonym...
Wozniak first attended the college in 1971, but he left to earn money to finish his studies. After Apple hit it big in the late 1970s, he quietly went back to classes in 1981-82 and this year. Relatively few students noticed him because he enrolled under a pseudonym: Rocky Raccoon Clark...
Haughton Murphy is the pseudonym of a fiftyish partner in a prestigious New York City law firm. The chief strength of his mystery Murder for Lunch (Simon & Schuster; 268 pages; $14.95) is its bemused glimpses of professional folkways. Murphy dryly observes how the size of the briefcase indicates an attorney's status: junior associates haul home thick wads of raw documents in bulky bags, while partners take away the distillate of that material: a few sheets in a thin leather envelope. He deftly sketches the ballets of protocol between august attorneys and rich parvenu clients, the ugly skirmishing between partners...
...year-old rebel, who has been visiting college campuses across the United States under the pseudonym Hamed Khanjar, told the Science Center crowd that "Afghanistan has never before been conquered, and I believe that Afghanistan will be free again...
...meantime, the magistrate who presided over Eagle's arraignment instructed him "to continue his counseling treatment during release unless discharged by [the] counseling facility," according to a court docket. The docket, which lists Stan Eagel as a pseudonym for the lecturer, did not specify what type of counseling Eagle is receiving...