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Such hoaxes were outrageous enough to make their perpetrators seem almost dignified in their raffishness. But forgeries have regularly caused more than empty pockets and red faces. One cut short a poetic career full of brilliant promise. In the 1760s, Thomas Chatterton, a teen-ager from Bristol, England, invented a 15th century monk called Thomas Rowley and wrote medieval-looking manuscripts of inspired poetry under the name. He had hoped to demonstrate his skills under a false identity and then reveal himself as the author when the public's attention was won. Before that could happen, the ruse...
That afternoon, prosecutors and defense attorneys had been meeting in the judge's chambers to discuss a minor procedural point. Prosecutor Robert Chatterton, in idle conversation with his courtroom adversaries, mentioned that a short while earlier he had been telephoned by an Anaheim police officer who asked for a definition of death in connection with another case. Chatterton casually added that he had just found out that doctors generally use a definition found in the state health and safety code...
...Section 7180 of the health and safety code," Chatterton nonchalantly repeated. Until then, neither judge nor defense attorneys were aware that California law contained a legal definition of death...
...gladly; romantic poets preached it madly; the early Christians pursued de facto suicide by avidly seeking martyrdom, until in A.D. 412 Saint Augustine declared the act a mortal sin. Alvarez also offers a fascinating chronicle of literary figures who espoused, contemplated or tried suicide-Montaigne, John Donne, Cowper, Thomas Chatterton, Dostoevsky, and so on up to Hart Crane and Ernest Hemingway. It is only toward the end that one realizes Alvarez is thesis pushing, that the book is as much apologia as inquiry. His questionable message: the 20th century is the age of death. But, Alvarez argues, because mankind...
After downing wrestlers from Cornell, Lehigh, and Franklin and Marshall in preliminary rounds, Catinella lost to Steve Cominsky of Navy, 6-5, in the 137-pound class. Chatterton, at 167, was pinned by Greg smith of Army after handing defeats to matmen from Colgate, and Penn State...