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...York Times obit said of Philip Stack: "He was rated the leader in his art." It was a lowly art: he was the nameless mass-producer of saccharine sentiments on millions of greeting cards. For Walter Winchell's millions of readers he penned disillusioned doggerel under the pseudonym "Don Wahn." But his real name was familiar to the Esquire oglers who glanced at the jingles under Varga's flesh-tinted cuties...
...Hungary and the Ukraine into a new tripartite empire. They picked blond, slender Wilhelm to be its sovereign, put him to studying Ukrainian. Soon he wrote nostalgic Ukrainian verse about the landscapes he had scarcely ever seen. He started wearing Ukrainian embroidered blouses and from them took his royal pseudonym, Vasily Vichivany (vichivany means embroidered). In 1918, he fought the Russians as colonel of a Ukrainian regiment...
...hours, appears at his desk at party head quarters by 7 a.m.† His recreations are bourgeois. He loves to read, frequently culling quotes for his speeches (favorite sources: Dante, Lincoln, the Bible). He loves soccer, and is rumored to write an occasional sports column under a pseudonym. Sometimes he strolls out to a simple pizzeria called La Carbonara, frequented chiefly by taxi drivers. Characteristically, he has broken with the darkling tradition of Communist revolutionaries, and does not play chess. Instead, he likes to bowl and play scopone (an Italian card game). His party comrades like him. They sincerely call...
...swami if he can find any followers. As a result there are devout swamis who lead the good life and there are swamis who simply enjoy a good life. Few of either kind write their autobiographies, so this life story by California's Paramhansa Yogananda (a Bengali pseudonym meaning approximately Swami-Bliss-through-Divine-Union) is something of a document. It is not likely to give the uninitiated much insight into India's ancient teachings. It does show exceedingly well how an alien culture may change when transplanted by a businesslike nurseryman from the tough soil of religious...
...Baron. One Communist up for election was Rio's chief wag, the gentle, bearded Apparicio Torelly. A celebrated journalist, he is known to most Brazilians as the Baron of Itararé. He took that pseudonym after writing, during one of the country's revolutions, a series on the Battle of the Itararé River-a battle that occurred only in his typewriter...