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...Maurois biographical writing is a method of escape. Emile Herzog (he adopted the pseudonym since his first book, a war novel, was published while he was still an officer in the French army) was destined for the role of a "chef d'industrie" in his father's cloth factory in Elbeuf. But an active business career did not interest him. He turned novelist and for a while he was known as the "humorous author of a pair of war books." That was hardly satisfactory, but "from the entanglement of passion we escape by action." Action: where was it? Mr. Maurois...
...advertising agencies' Bible, Layout in Advertising. He has designed several beautiful type faces and for many years has been retained by famed Mergenthaler Linotype Co. as typographical consultant. His passion for fine handwriting caused him to found the Society of Calligraphers. He still serves as its secretary under the pseudonym of Hermann Puterschein...
Died. Robert A. King, 72, song writer; of heart disease, immediately after hearing a radio broadcast of his last composition ("One Day in May"); in Manhattan. A writer of hits for 50 years, he sold five million copies of his waltz "Beautiful Ohio," written under the pseudonym Mary Earl...
Harcourt Amory was a diligent collector of the works of Charles L. Dodgson, who wrote under the pseudonym of "Lewis Carroll", and in addition to his collection of Dodgson's books, constructed a toy theater, in which he used miniatures of the characters in "Alice in Wonderland". Armory cared little for the pamphlets on mathematics and logic, which the versatile Dodgson published, and was, for the most part, concerned with the changing types of illustrations used in the various editions of "Alice...
Died, Bernhard von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg, 74, author, youngest brother of President Paul von Hindenburg of Germany; in Luebeck, Germany. Under the pseudonym of Bernhard von Burgdorff he wrote novels, a popular biography of his famed brother, a play (Galileo) depicting the conflict of church and science, which attracted interest at the time of the Scopes trial in Tennessee...