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Thus The Nun's Story is the story of a failure. As such it tells-far more convincingly than many a spiritual success story-the tremendous, unsuspected battles of the soul that are fought behind cloister walls. As for Gabrielle Van der Mal (a pseudonym), she came to the U.S. in 1951 with Author Hulme, under whom she had served in a U.N. refugee mission. The ex-nun has since become nursing supervisor of a large Los Angeles hospital and last month she became an American citizen. If she has any more to say it is probably what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Failure | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

Abel Erelong is a not very clever pseudonym for a not very clever poem about Celia and Sweeney, who should be left to Mr. Eliot. "Robert Johnston publishes an in memoriam for the passing of the 3rd Avenue El," according to the notes...

Author: By Christopher Jencks, | Title: The Advocate | 5/3/1956 | See Source »

Died. Norman Kerry, 60, dashing hero of silent films (The Phantom of the Opera, The Hunchback of Notre Dame); of a liver ailment; in Los Angeles. In 1939 Kerry enlisted in the French Foreign Legion under the pseudonym Heinrich van der Kerry of Rotterdam, saw action on the Maginot Line, returned to the U.S. in 1941 after the fall of France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 23, 1956 | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

...author used as a pseudonym a Washington professor's name, writing the article to burlesque the attempts of certain schools to falsify their historical backgrounds. "why are we doing this?" he said in the article. "Our reason is to make the whole battle for historical precedence so foolish that the Association of American Colleges or some similarly comprehensive agency will devise a clear standard for establishing the founding dates of colleges and universities...

Author: By Bernard M. Gwertzman, | Title: Washington College Seeks Harvard's Title | 10/7/1955 | See Source »

...opening journey through a troubled corner of The Company's world brought Author Edson McCann (pseudonym for "a government scientist") a $6,500 contest prize as 1955's best science-fiction story. But, with its minimum of electronic gadgetry and with no space excursions at all, Preferred Risk stays close to the ground and takes a jitney ride along the broad highway charted by George Orwell six years ago in 1984. Author McCann, throwing politics away as excess baggage, just zips along, fast, wry, and sometimes ingenious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Big Brother, Inc. | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

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