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...case for more than a year-while Altmann swaggered around in a green Tyrolean hat, usually accompanied by a tough young bodyguard-the Bolivian Supreme Court finally demanded that the question of Altmann's identity be officially settled. Altmann admits to using the name Barbie as a pseudonym; he also has a birth certificate in that name and has received mail from the Barbie family in Germany. But he is a Bolivian citizen who claims that he has broken no Bolivian law. The French argue, however, that the fugitive acquired Bolivian citizenship by fraud and that despite the lack...
...child's care, she contracted with the John Day Co. for several books. The second one she sent them was The Good Earth. After that Pearl Buck wrote and wrote and wrote. All together she turned out some 80 volumes of novels, stories and essays, some under the pseudonym of John Sedges...
...basketful of alumni who have continued their theatrical pursuits professionally. Alan Jay Lerner '40 wrote the music for two consecutive shows. Jack Lemmon '47 was president of Hasty Pudding Theatricals. In 1946, he starred in something call The Proof of the Pudding and was compelled to perform under a pseudonym, reputedly because he was then on academic probation. And anyone who has seen Lemmon as Daphne on the screen in Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot will recognize the appeal of the role for Lemmon--the quintessential Pudding part...
...very least, though, it is clear that "Juan Matus" is a pseudonym used to protect his teacher's privacy. The need to be inaccessible and elusive is a central theme in the books. Time and again Don Juan urges Castaneda to emulate him and free
Kids I spoke with who were connected with YRB were almost all vehemently critical both of Saravelas and his Bureau, though some liked individual staff members. "Raymond [a pseudonym for a former streetworker] introduced me to the Bureau, but the Bureau hasn't done shit," said one Dana Street kid. "The only thing that was done for me that was considered part of the Bureau was that Raymond got me a job at a gas station. And that was on his own time--he went down at night...