Word: pseudonymity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Edward E. Tanner III, 55, who, under the pseudonym Patrick Dennis, wrote the 1955 bestseller Auntie Mame; of cancer; in Manhattan. Tanner was promotion manager for Foreign Affairs magazine when the eleventh publisher he tried agreed to print Mame, the zany tale of a rich young orphan and his eccentric aunt. It later became a play, a film and a Broadway musical. Tanner wrote twelve novels as Patrick Dennis and four as Virginia Rowans. "Writing isn't hard," he once said. "No harder than ditch digging...
...authority of his government seemed to weaken. As early as the end of 1974, an extraordinary 77-page wall poster put up in Canton set forth a comprehensive indictment of the way China was being run at that time. Written by a group of young intellectuals who used the pseudonym Li I-che, the wall poster condemned China as a place where "no one is allowed to think, no one is allowed to do research, and no one is allowed to ask a single why on any question." Instead of a true democracy, the wall poster charged, a dictatorship...
...Sydney-in England, France and the U.S. The solid financial background that gives The House of All Nations its authority was gained during the late '20s when Stead worked in a Paris bank. She was also married to a banker, William Blech, who wrote novels himself under the pseudonym of "William Blake." He died in 1968 and a few years later Stead returned to Australia. She now lives with her brother, a labor union official, in an extension to a small brick house in the Sydney suburb of Hurstville...
Sarah Rothman (a pseudonym) inherited her grandfather's lucrative watch repair business as a young and inexperienced girl-"What I went through, I don't know why I'm living that long, I'm telling your. I broke plenty of watches." But gaining experience, she acquired a sense of independence; after she emigrated to the United States, she asserted her independence by marching on picket lines and getting an illegal abortion. Rose Soskin was only 13 when a 35-year-old Polish doctor decided he would marry her. "In the Old Country, when a doctor wants to marry...
...nights drinking root beer, and Preston Folded isn't "getting any" ("Revoking your licentiousness, eh Kitty?"). Preston threatens to send the tots back home but, as luck and dramatic experience would have it, there is a recognition scene: Preston (really Hiram Higaby) finally sees through Flo Gently's pseudonym; she's really Dolores Fishback, Preston's old college sweetheart. Flo saves the other tots from returning to the bread lines, the show ends in a few marriages, and Kitty sings "Let's Stay Home" for the honeymoon, saying that "All of the best things are right here at home...