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Leftist Faiz is best known as an Urdu poet. Both soldiers are career officers from the old Indian army. Akbar Khan enjoys an added reputation as a practical joker. Once, to amuse himself, if not his friends, he had an aide read fake news bulletins over a microphone connected to his home radio. While Akbar chuckled, his worried guests heard realistic descriptions of the death of one guest's father, a fire which burned down another's house, and an earthquake in an area where a third man owned property...
...Angeles collector had bought a signed and certified early De Chirico in Milan, and then asked the artist to authenticate it. Cried De Chirico: Fake! The collector promptly took his canvas, An Italian Square, to court...
This letter was written on the belief that CRIMSON readers would find the by-now patently fake Radcliffe Mother's opinion funny. The belief was apparently accurate; every undergraduate reply to the letter was similarly tongue-in-cheek. But "Radcliffe Mother"--and the CRIMSON--failed to reckon with the Associated Press...
Ladd plays a tough badman who, when asked if he has any friends, replies through his teeth: "My guns." In a scheme to pose as the long-lost son of a wealthy rancher (Charles Bickford), he takes off his shirt twice: first to let a tattoo artist fake a birthmark on his shoulder, later to dupe Bickford with the false credentials...
Like his friend and fellow fake-hunter, Magician Harry Houdini, Rinn spent a long time looking for evidence of psychic power he could believe in. As a youngster, he was bowled over when a medium ordered him to place the spout of a kettle to his ear and thus receive the words of a "spirit voice." Only after he himself became a magician did Rinn realize that he had been duped (out of $5) by a double-bottomed kettle equipped like a telephone receiver and in contact with a "spirit" hidden behind a panel...