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...more venturesome accountants-to-be went for a Saturday evening's entertainment. Glamorous Ernie Hyne was reported to have been seen fending off three girls at one time in one corner while the greatest act of all was put on by one Paul Giamis who assumed the dramatic pseudonym of Beauregard J. Lee III for the evening. His suaveness and natural ability were so certain that he finally had five of the more astute people there convinced of his pure Southern ancestry and has been taking all drawling calls for Mid'n Lee ever since. All the credit...
...This is a true story," says Author Brown, "about a close friend . . . who went out of his mind." Michael Kelly Jones (the friend's pseudonym) was born in New York in 1912, free-lanced for a while, served on the editorial staff of a magazine. Carlton Brown, born in New York in 1912, has contributed short stories and articles to The New Yorker, Esquire, The New Republic. For the past two years he has been an associate editor of Pic. This is his first book...
Michael O'Donovan, Cork-born in 1903, got off the mark so fast that he tried to publish his "collected works" at the age of twelve. Later, having adopted the pseudonym of Frank O'Connor, he published several novels and plays, some verse, a biography of Irish Revolutionary Michael Collins, and a host of short stories that critics have called the best in Ireland since James Joyce's Dubliners. "O'Connor," said the late great William Butler Yeats, "is doing for Ireland what Chekov did for Russia...
...millinery business. His father began to catch on when young Iz (the family nickname) forged his name on an excuse from school to see the doctor. Iz went to the local vaudeville house instead. Father Leopold stormed. Iz threatened to run away- under a pseudonym, to spare the family name. Father Leopold didn't like that, either. Said he: "If you make a hit, nobody will know...
...Paris doctor donated 5,000 francs and Publisher Bruller bought the necessary paper bit by bit on the black market. Under the pseudonym "Vercors" he also wrote the Editions' first volume, Le Silence de la Mer (later translated as The Silence of the Sea and published in LIFE Oct. 11, 1943). Working secretly nights and Sundays, Underground Printer Ernest Aulard handset the Editions' first volumes, later managed to obtain a linotype...