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Cordwainer Smith – pronounced CORDwainer – was the pseudonym used by American author Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger ( July 11, 1913 – August 6, 1966 ) for his science fiction works.
Linebarger was a noted East Asia scholar and expert in psychological warfare.
His father was Paul M. W. Linebarger, a lawyer and political activist with close ties to the leaders of the Chinese revolution of 1911.
As a child, Linebarger was blinded in his right eye ; the vision in his remaining eye was impaired by infection.
As a result, Linebarger was familiar with six languages by adulthood.
While retaining his professorship at Duke after the beginning of World War II, Linebarger began serving as a second lieutenant of the United States Army, where he was involved in the creation of the Office of War Information and the Operation Planning and Intelligence Board.
After her death, his widow, Genevieve Collins Linebarger, was interred with him on November 16, 1981.
Linebarger was long rumored to have been the original for " Kirk Allen ," the fantasy-haunted subject of " The Jet-Propelled Couch ," a chapter in psychologist Robert M. Lindner's best-selling 1954 collection, The Fifty-Minute Hour.
More recently, both Elms and librarian Lee Weinstein have gathered circumstantial evidence to support the case for Linebarger's being " Allen ," but both concede there is no direct proof that Linebarger was ever a patient of Lindner's or that he suffered from a disorder similar to that of " Kirk Allen.
As an expert in psychological warfare, Linebarger was very interested in the newly developing fields of psychology and psychiatry.

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Linebarger also employed the literary pseudonyms " Carmichael Smith " ( for his political thriller Atomsk ), " Anthony Bearden " ( for his poetry ) and " Felix C. Forrest " ( for the novels Ria and Carola ).
From 1937 to 1946, Linebarger held a faculty appointment at Duke University, where he began producing highly regarded works on Far Eastern affairs.
When he later pursued his interest in China, Linebarger became a close confidant of Chiang Kai-shek.
In 1947, Linebarger moved to the Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC, where he served as Professor of Asiatic Studies.
In 1936, Linebarger married Margaret Snow.
In 1950, Linebarger married again to Genevieve Collins ; they had several children.
Linebarger had expressed a wish to retire to Australia, which he had visited in his travels, but died at age 53.
Colonel Linebarger is buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Section 35, Grave Number 4712.
Linebarger's cultural links to China are partially expressed in the pseudonym " Felix C. Forrest ", which he used in addition to " Cordwainer Smith ": his godfather Sun Yat-Sen suggested to Linebarger that he adopt the Chinese name " Lin Bai-lo " (), which may be roughly translated as " Forest of Incandescent Bliss ".
In his later years, Linebarger proudly wore a tie with the Chinese characters for this name embroidered on it.
The introduction to the collection Rediscovery of Man notes that from around 1960 Linebarger became more devout and expressed this in his writing.

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`` My mother read a book right after I was born and there was a Lilian in the book she loved and I became Lilian -- and eventually I became Paula ''.
By now she was sure she was going to have a baby, deciding it would be born in India or Burma that November.
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In the judgment of Chief of Staff Scott it was ironic that the draft policy of a Democratic President, aimed at Germany, had to be pushed through the House of Representatives by the ranking minority member of the Military Affairs Committee -- a Republican Jew born in Germany!!
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And she replied, `` I was born in America, but I was conceived in Vienna ''.
I was born angry.
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was and Milwaukee
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And one of the Milwaukee rookies sighed and remarked, `` Wish I was 40, and a top-grade big leaguer.
Colangelo's bid received strong support from one of his friends, Chicago White Sox and Chicago Bulls owner Jerry Reinsdorf, and media reports say that then-acting Commissioner of Baseball and Milwaukee Brewers founder Bud Selig was also a strong supporter of Colangelo's bid.
Selig was previously the team owner and team president of the Milwaukee Brewers.
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When Selig was only three, Marie began taking him and his older brother, Jerry, to Borchert Field, where the minor league Milwaukee Brewers played.
Selig was devastated when he learned that the Braves were going to leave Milwaukee in favor of Atlanta.
One of the games played in Milwaukee that year was against the expansion Seattle Pilots, the team that would become the Brewers.
On August 24, 2010, a statue of Selig, commissioned by Brewers owner Mark Attanasio and designed by artist Brian Maughan, was unveiled outside Miller Park in Milwaukee.
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Lang's follow-up, Scarlet Street ( 1945 ), was one of the few classic noirs to be officially censored: filled with erotic innuendo, it was temporarily banned in Milwaukee, Atlanta, and New York State.
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Founded in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, during the first decade of the 20th century, it was one of two major American motorcycle manufacturers to survive the Great Depression.
The machine's advanced loop-frame pattern was similar to the 1903 Milwaukee Merkel motorcycle ( designed by Joseph Merkel, later of Flying Merkel fame ).
Most of the major parts, however, were made elsewhere, including some probably fabricated at the West Milwaukee railshops where oldest brother William A. Davidson was then toolroom foreman.
This prototype machine was functional by September 8, 1904, when it competed in a Milwaukee motorcycle race held at State Fair Park.

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