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Died. Fairfax Harrison, 68, onetime 1913-37) president of Southern Railway Co.; of heart disease; in Baltimore. Railroader Harrison was by avocation a scholar who: 1) researched U. S. racehorse genealogies; 2) published, under the pseudonym "A Virginia Farmer," a book Roman Farm Management, translations of agricultural commentaries by Vergil, Varro, Cato...
...Author. The serious, sociological tone of Leo Calvin Rosten's study belies his creation of the comic character, Hyman Kaplan, in the New Yorker, where he uses the pseudonym Leonard Q. Ross. Polish-born, short, dark-eyed and heavy-lidded, Mr. Rosten at two was taken to Chicago where he soon began to fight poverty with animated ingenuity. A University of Chicago scholarship started his education and he earned Phi Beta Kappa honors. After a year of browsing in Europe, unable to find the newspaper job he wanted when he returned to Chicago, Author Rosten lectured in the Midwest...
...almost 30 years ago by French Playwright Alexandre Bisson. Last Madame X in pictures was Ruth Chatterton (1929). First produced on Broadway in 1910, revived in 1927, the play has been filmed thrice as Madame X, often approximated under other titles. Hiding her ''shame" under the historic pseudonym this time is Gladys George, stage veteran and no cinemamateur...
Alan Corby is the closely-guarded pseudonym of a famed U. S. adventure writer. Whether he took an alias because he was afraid Deep Soundings would queer him with his usual Boy Scout audience, or because he wanted it to make its own way as a serious literary work, is hard to say. On the literary side the book is a straight throwback to Kipling and Jack London- a story involving the hazards of convoying merchant ships during the War, with a hero who, through duty and red-hot blood rather than patriotism, faces death as manfully as love. Added...
...reason: too busy.) Bachelor-of-the-Theatre was Alexander Kirkland, who interviewed himself. A portfolio of "Bachelors-of-the-Arts" included Photographers George Platt Lynes and Hal Phyfe, Poet-Artist Jean Cocteau, Cinemactor Robert Taylor. Julius ("Pete") Street Jr. wrote about Princeton's Triangle Club show under the pseudonym of Peter Street. An article on "The Insolence of American Women" was contributed by a Baron Giorgio Sudani, organizer and president of the Noblemen's Club of New York...