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...early '40s; of a heart attack; in New York City. A policeman's son, he learned to sing by memorizing popular recordings, mimicking what he heard. As "Paul Oliver" on radio's Palmolive Hour, he became a nationwide favorite. In 1931 he dropped the pseudonym, and, never appearing on stage or screen, became star soloist on NBC's weekly Album of Familiar Music, Waltz Time...
...Zinoviev, the boss of the Comintern, went to the files, found that all the adverse reports had been signed by Comrade Ulbricht. When Moscow decided in 1925 that the German party must be atomized so that it would be utterly obedient to the Kremlin, it was Ulbricht, under the pseudonym Zelle (Cell), who proceeded to chop it into a confusion of small cells. Ulbricht plotted with the Nazis in the 1932 transport strike, which ruined the democratic Social Democrats and helped propel Hitler to power. He was among the first to flee Nazi Germany (although he tampered with his biography...
...14th century romance, the hard-won bride of the chivalrous Amadis of Gaul; in Elizabeth's court, an approved poetic pseudonym for Elizabeth...
...spirit is Joseph McCarthy, the situation becomes equally perilous for the rights of privacy and fair hearing. As part of his Committee correspondence, the supposedly objective chairman, McCarthy, addressed a telegram to witness James Wechler, editor of the N. Y. Post, in care of Howard Lawson--Wechler's alleged pseudonym during his Communist Party days. Since the point under exploration, while distant from any possibility of prospective legislation or other constructive result, is Wechler's present political convictions, such a move pressages a biased committee...
...cheek to get his small bulb out where it could shine. As Cooper observes, "The immortal gift of Albert Woods was his capacity for answering [the question of how to be great] with a glorious hotheaded 'Somehow!' " In short, Author Cooper, himself a physicist hiding under a pseudonym, sets off a merry little stink bomb in the sacred precincts of High Science, as if to show that the laboratory atmosphere is not always filled with the ozone of pure disinterestedness...