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Columbine is the Star's pseudonym for slim Tim Taylor, 28, a reporter turned freelancer. Taylor scans some 35 Manhattan columns a day in his Stamford, Conn, home and shows up at the Star only to write his column. He spends two-thirds of his time cross-indexing columnists' items to find out such things as 1) how many errors are made, 2) whom the columnists talk about most, and 3) how they correct their mistakes without openly admitting that they were wrong. Wrote Taylor: Columnist "Sullivan got himself in hot water when he identified Joyce Matthews...
...Odyssey into a breezy English that made the dons wince ("Calypso trembled with rage when she heard this. 'You gods,' she exclaimed, 'ought to be ashamed of yourselves' "), then added insult to injury by claiming that the "Homer" of the Odyssey was the pseudonym of an unknown Sicilian woman...
...Communist elite corps, charged with infiltrating high Government offices (TIME, Aug. 16). Hiss had unequivocally denied that he was ever a Communist or that he had ever known Chambers. But last week he admitted that he had indeed known Chambers-although under the name of George Crosley (a pseudonym Chambers could not remember ever having used). The background of his admission made the most fascinating story of the hearings to date...
...oratory boomed out like cannon fire. In the front row, Oklahoma's doddering ex-Governor "Alfalfa Bill" Murray beamed his approval, proudly recalled that "I'm the man who introduced Jim Crow in Oklahoma." Race-baiting Gerald L. K. Smith turned up as a spectator under the pseudonym of S. Goodyear. A group of Mississippi students set up a chant: "To hell with Truman...
Furthermore, research . . . and studies now being made of the plays and poems prove beyond doubt that the true author of these . . . was the 17th Earl of Oxford, using the pseudonym, "William Shakespeare." His noblest drama, Hamlet, was largely autobiographical...