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...transmission of a Khrushchev speech. According to this theory, Kuba misread it as KHRUSHCHEV SKONCHALSIA (Khrushchev dead) and cabled the news forthwith. However, at week's end this explanation was exploded by a report from a German TV network that its Hamburg office had received a similar bogus message, save that it was signed "Britinform," cablese for the British Information Service in Bonn...
Died. El Brendel, 73, cinecomedian born in Philadelphia to Irish and German parents but famed in the early '30s for his bogus Swedish accent, which made "yumpin' yimminy" slang of the day in dozens of yuicy Hollywood roles; of a heart attack; in Hollywood...
...Winnie had the money to attract -and buy-an entourage. Her consort was the bogus prince, "Nicky" Sturdza, who was flat broke when he met Winnie at a Paris cocktail party in 1950. She hired him as her escort at $1,000 a month, had his crown and her initials engraved on her handbags, and since he had a flair for designing clothes, Winnie set him up in the Boutique Nicky on Paris' fashionable Faubourg St.-Honor...
...work, he became head of the sales force in three years, eventually company president. On the way up, he engineered deals that were the talk of Wall Street. But one of them furnished his enemies with ammunition to use against him in later years. Forrestal set up a bogus Canadian corporation in order to avoid paying some $100,000 in taxes-not an illegal act, writes Rogow, but not a very ethical one, either...
...Last week the bogus liquidators were hotter than they wanted to be. New York State's attorney general won a court order dissolving a Manhattan firm with the impressive name of U.S. Liquidators Inc., which had sold 16,000 cheap transistor radios that it claimed were drastically marked down for liquidation; the company was fined $500 and forced to refund the price of all its unfilled orders. And more action is on the way. The F.T.C. plans to take steps against another operator next month, and the' U.S. Post Office is seeking indictments of two others for fraud...