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William Randolph Hirsch. Whatever pseudonyms may do for the individual ego, editors still insist that there are practical reasons to use them. For 50 years, Hearst papers used the byline Cholly Knickerbocker to cover several writers. The single name, editors found, gave the column an identity it would not have had if the names had kept switching. When Society Columnist Aileen Mehle came along, she was dubbed Suzy Knickerbocker, and she took the name with her when she joined the New York Daily News. Then, too, when a publication runs more than one piece by the same person...
Some writers, of course, use pseudonyms for the sheer fun of it. It was never very credible that a man named William Randolph Hirsch wrote the Red Chinese Air Force Exercise, Diet & Sex Book. In a review of the manual, Humorist Marvin Kitman revealed that he was the author, with an assist from other editors of Monocle magazine. Not that he entirely approves of the practice. "The four most shocking pseudonyms in use today," he confides, "are Walter Lippmann, Art Buchwald, James Reston and Arthur Krock...
Among the several courses open to them to try to blunt the rejection mechanism, Washkansky's doctors chose to use two drugs, azathioprine (Imuran) and cortisone, plus radiation. At first, to avoid moving their patient, they administered gamma rays with an emergency cobalt-60 unit, somewhat resembling a dentist's X-ray machine, rigged up in his room. After four days, when Washy was waving at photographers and joshing with doctors and nurses, he was considered strong enough to stand a quarter-mile trundle to the regular radiation treatment center. At week's end, when his white...
...instance, C.R.L.A. took up the case of an eight-months pregnant Spanish-speaking farm worker who was denied welfare aid for failing to use an official phrase on an application form. C.R.L.A. asked for a hearing, and the welfare agency approved the application and made back payments. C.R.L.A. challenged the constitutionality of complex Internal Revenue Service requirements that are either incomprehensible or impossible to fulfill for Spanish-speaking Mexican-Americans. The IRS not only conceded but also asked Lorenz for help in hiring bilingual employees to explain its requirements...
...exlaims: "I do not know which remedy to use, which sheep should I run to help? 1 cannot defend them all, so it would be best to desist from...