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Then he asked Beer if it would be all right to have Kennedy sitting on the corner of the desk, since it was necessary to get him into the discussion as well. Beer agreed. "It's completely bogus, but it's all right...
...Beer persisted. "This whole thing is bogus, but we've got to make it as little bogus as possible. Wear the chinos...
JEOPARDY, by Manfred Conte (278 pp.; Sloane; $3.50), contains enough interesting research on the hazards of counterfeiting and passing bogus $100 bills to discourage any hopeful amateur. The hero is a sensationally successful engraver whose counterfeiting has baffled the U.S. Treasury for months. Unfortunately, he runs into a stretch of overwritten bad luck with thieving, deceitful or suspicious-acting ladies. His professional life is a lot more entertaining than his love life...
January. The Harvard faculty will be rocked by an expose of the local jewelry store that sells bogus Phi Beta Kappa keys. Crane Brinton will abandon his professorship to become a section man at Sarah Lawrence. Seven alumni of the class of '18 will picket Mem Hall crying, "Veritas has become demi-tasse and these hallowed halls have termites!" Three business school students will be arrested for smuggling the newly banned copies of Playboy over the state line...
What Every Swot Should Know. Then again, in a more realistic vein he ofers the molesworth bogus report card ("Destroy reel report when it comes along") and the invaluable molesworth self-adjusting thank-you letter...