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...ROGER W. CHAPMAN BRIAN DOBROW Stockton, Calif...
...Meadows proves to have been duped again, he will not be alone. "There is hardly a new collection in the U.S. that does not have at least one fake," says Joseph Chapman, former FBI agent on art frauds. The problem in routing out the fakers is that the gulled buyer will rarely swear out a complaint, often chooses to auction off his mistakes or donate them to charitable organizations as a tax write-off. Says one Los Angeles investigator: "How many con games are there that have the power to convert the victims into accomplices after they have found...
Question: Can a book that is obviously destined to be a bestseller be all bad? Answer: Yes. Irving Wallace (The Man, The Prize, The Chapman Report) runs through several plots in The Plot: the Kennedy assassination, a defrocked diplomat's attempt to prove himself innocent of accusations of treason, an ex-President's struggle to uphold his fading reputation, an exiled party girl's scheme to re-enter her native England, a down-and-out reporter's comeback attempt. By a stretch of imagination no greater than Wallace's, Dwight Eisenhower, Christine Keeler, Alger Hiss...
...past two decades, Merritt-Chapman has had a hand in more than $1.5 billion worth of construction work, including the Mackinac Bridge, the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, the Niagara Power Project, the Glen Canyon Dam in Arizona, Priest Rapids Dam in Washington and the New Jersey Turnpike. The company also undertook smaller projects ranging from roads in Ethiopia to Air Force early-warning stations in Labrador...
Should Merritt-Chapman & Scott, by some stroke of genius, avoid liquidation, it would have to get along without Wolfson. Stung by the suits and charges against him, Wolfson protests that "when you can't be an individual, a pioneer, I'm getting out." Israel Merritt had a different view of pioneering...