The story is about a man called Ultimatum.

VOA: special.2010.11.22

He performed the one-man play called "The King of the Desert" at a small historic theater in Hollywood.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

For example,a poem called "The Death of the Hired Man" begins: Mary sat musing on the lamp-flame at the table, Waiting for Warren.

VOA: special.2011.04.17

Whatever he is called, he is still the same short,fat, jolly old man with a long beard, wearing a red suit with white fur.

VOA: special.2009.12.20

He was called Zeppo. He did not play a funny man like the other three.

VOA: special.2009.07.19

a young man called out cheerfully. "How far is it to the main road?"

VOA: special.2010.04.03

The Canadian-American writer John Geiger wrote about this in a recent book called The Third Man Factor. The book will soon be published in several languages, including Chinese, Korean and Japanese.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

"I think the one story that inspired this book was meeting a wonderful man called Don Mertin in New Zealand and he explaining to me how he had saved a species of bird called a Black Robin when there were just seven individuals left in the world of which only two were female and only one of whom was fertile."

VOA: special.2009.11.18

The singer Lisa Minelli, learning of his death, called him a kind and genuine man.

VOA: standard.2009.06.26