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...career men are generally quiet men, and inclined to be scholarly. One (W. Walton Butterworth, in Sweden) is a Rhodes Scholar; another (J. Rives Childs, in Ethiopia) writes novels and histories under a pseudonym (Henry Filmer), and carries an enormous private library with him wherever he goes...
Perhaps the most extraordinary act of his life was his decision, in 1922, to chuck the world's honors and enlist under a pseudonym in the R.A.F. It took six months for Lawrence to be discovered and tossed out-the Air Ministry considered his enlistment alarmingly unconventional. But in those six months Lawrence had captured all the impressions he needed for a corrosive study of barracks life. Later, he talked his way back into the R.A.F. as Aircraftman T. E. Shaw (he took the name legally), and claimed to wish no other life. But before his death...
...just after World War II that Kennan, the Russian expert, came into his own. As Counselor of the Moscow embassy, he coached Ambassadors W. Averell Harriman and Bedell Smith. Back in Washington, he became head of the State Department's Policy Planning Staff in 1947. Under the pseudonym "Mr. X," he wrote, in Foreign Affairs, his famous article, "The Sources of Soviet Conduct." Destined to be the field manual of cold-war diplomacy, the article outlined the "containment" policy which has been the basis of U.S. strategy. "Soviet pressure against the free institutions of the Western world," said...
Henry Gauthier-Villars, known to all France at the turn of the century by his simple pseudonym, "Willy," was regarded as the most prolific hack-writer of his day. His admirers marveled that one man could produce such a torrent of puff-pastry fiction, dramatizations, music and theater criticism, and racy personal history. Actually, Willy did nothing of the sort. He employed hacks to do his hacking; he was squire of an estate of sharecropping "ghosts...
...patients undergoing psychoanalysis keep any notes of the long, soul-searching sessions. If they write anything at all about the experience, they usually fictionalize it under a pseudonym. Not so New York Timeswoman. Lucy Freeman. Like the good reporter she is, Lucy Freeman hurried from the couch to a quiet corner, where she recorded all that seemed important of what she had told the analyst and what he had told her. The literary result: a 332-page book, Fight Against Fears (Crown...