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...rich young oilman and cinema producer first burst over the horizon of national attention when he produced Hell's Angels (TIME, June 9, 1930). Other cinema successes followed, but by 1932 Director Hughes had tired of Hollywood, turned back to aviation as a prime interest. Hiding under a pseudonym, he got a job as transport pilot for American Airways, managed to make one cross-country flight before officials discovered his identity. Next Pilot Hughes took to developing special racers which he flew with moderate success in U. S. air-meets. Latest of these was the husky red-winged plane...
...distinction of being the author of a major literary hoax. In 1916 when U. S. excitement over free verse, imagism, vorticism, and other strange movements was red hot. Author Bynner, in collaboration with Arthur Davison Ficke, dashed off a few nonsensical poems, signed them with a pseudonym, "Emanuel Morgan," declared them expressions of a new esthetic principle called spectrum. While the real identity of the author was carefully concealed critics and poets gravely debated the merits of this bogus verse and school, argued solemnly whether Poet Emanuel Morgan was a genius or a fraud. In Guest Book Author Bynner again...
...historic. A scholarly, aristocratic gentleman of 65, with a name that works magic throughout the South, Mr. Harrison divides his time between his country seat at Belvoir in Virginia's Fauquier County and the Washington headquarters of his road, writes learned treatises on Roman farm management under the pseudonym "A Virginia Farmer." Though he has lately given up reading daily newspapers as a waste of time, President Harrison last week unbent enough to give the Press nine words: "There are no financial difficulties facing the Southern Railway...
...Author is a Jack of all professions -aviator, novelist, archeologist, biographer. His novels, written under the pseudonym of Lewis Grassic Gibbon, are in Scots dialect. His Earth Conquerors, a series of short biographies of famed explorers, was published by Simon & Schuster last autumn. The Conquest of the Maya has the official praise of Fellow of the Royal Society G. Elliot Smith, champion of the theory that all human culture was diffused from a common point in the Nile Valley...
...matinees for children. On the chance that Legion of Decency approval will give them a new impetus, RKO took special pains with this one. Its story is by Zane Grey. Its cast includes Richard Dix, Martha Sleeper, Louise Beavers and an imitator of Stepin Fetchit who uses a preposterous pseudonym, "Sleep...