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...Simon, father of three, wanted to take his children back to America. "No! No! No!" screamed his wife. Someone whispered to her: "Don't worry, we're going to take care of everything." Indeed, as reporters learned later from survivors, Jones had a plan to plant one or more fake defectors among the departing group, in order to attack them. He told some of his people that the Congressman's plane "will fall...
...when collectors refused to touch his current work but scrambled for any pre-1920 De Chirico, he began to repeat his own early work. The market for De Chiricos became hopelessly snarled in disputes over authenticity, between fake De Chiricos painted by others, the copies he painted himself, and the real pre-1920 canvases. He took a sardonic relish in that. It was his revenge on an art world that he regarded as corrupt from first to last. Nevertheless, nothing would stop him from painting. He was, at the last, a model of misapplied industry. But the young De Chirico...
...author of that authentic fake, the "autobiography" of Howard Hughes, prolific Writer Clifford Irving can be relied upon for verisimilitude. Here Irving teams with entertaining Novelist Herbert Burkholz (Mulligan's Seed) to write a suavely persuasive, anti-Establishment thriller with the bitter aftertaste of Campari and vodka...
...Clasby his Paul Crowley with a scoring connection that closed the gap to 14-7. From there, the Crimson pulled off the unexpected. Two players who had gained only late-season varsity recognition did the damage, John Ederer taking a fake handoff for an 83-yd. scoring romp, and Fred Drill running 20 yards with an interception that put Harvard ahead...
...glamor boy of the Crimson eleven in the mid-1930s was fullback Vernon Struck, who back then took the snap from center. Struck's sleight-of-hand with the pigskin earned him the sonorous sobriquet of "The Magnificent Faker." "Struck would fake you right out of the stadium," Cavileer recalls. "One day I ran into Dick Bennick, who was a manager back in 1930 and he said: 'I sit with my friends back in the end zone and I don't have any problems seeing the ball but I never could follow the plays when old Struck was around...