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...says he, "is to make the legends come true.' While 15 other local columnists in the city's four dailies have come and gone in the past two decades, Caen's lighthearted legend-doctoring has filled six newspaper columns a week since 1938, earned him the sobriquet "Mr. San Francisco." and poured over into five profitable books about the city he calls Baghdad-by-the-Bay. The latest, Herb Caen's Guide to San Francisco, had sold 20,240 copies by last week, and is one of the few local guidebooks in publishing history to have...
...fitting sobriquet for TIME [March 4]-honored Christian Dior is, of course, "The Pied Piper of Hemlines...
...instructor. But his interest was always research, not teaching. In his laboratory experiments in radioactive chemistry, he became one of the first to realize that atomic techniques had abolished the traditional distinction between chemistry and physics. Because of his daring, energetic research methods, he acquired, and still wears, the sobriquet "Wild Bill...
Even before the turbulent '20s, when the oil interests of the Middle East were being shuffled through a maze of complex reorganizations, Gulbenkian's talent for cutting himself in on virtually every deal earned him the sobriquet "Mr. 5%." Meanwhile, the profits he reaped were plowed into scores of other financial interests and one of the finest and most diffuse art collections in the world...
Britain's "Mad Major," who shot down 15 German planes, was one of the lucky ones. His real name was Christopher Draper, and he earned his sobriquet by hedgehopping across no man's land to pepper the German trenches with bullets from a .303 rifle, his Webley revolver, and anything else he could lay hands...