Word: fakes
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...then clamoring for interns, he was soon placed. Said Superintendent Miriam Watnick of Brooklyn Women's Hospital: "He was a very good doctor and a nice person. He had a marvelous personality and impressed all of us at the hospital. I can't imagine him being a fake . . . He had a medical diploma and references. What could we do?" Nobody, it seemed, had had the time or taken the trouble to check MacLeod's references...
...exactly a stranger. The police identified him as Franco Bertucci, a salesman and onetime plainclothesman on Rome's own police force. The rest of the story, as the police told it: Bertucci had once consulted Professor Gramantieri about another miniature (which turned out to be a fake). In the course of the consultation, kindly Professor Gramantieri had hauled out his Raphael from its hiding place in the bookcase. On a return visit during the professor's absence, the police were convinced, Bertucci had known just where to look...
...routine handling brought a roar of protest from liquor dealers, amazed at the gullibility of Eugene C. Pulliam's* Republic. The letter, they said, was a fake, a rewrite of old prohibitionist propaganda that had been planted in the Republic as part of the drys' campaign to put over a local option law backed, added the wets, by Oklahoma bootleggers anxious to expand their business...
...Mayor Gregori smoothly: "It isn't for me to head a delegation to the bishop. Communists aren't well received there . . . Really, it's the bishop who should come to see me, but that would be unthinkable, as unthinkable as that the Vatican would send a fake reliquary back in place of our real...
...German kids swallowed that kind of talk. Inside the F.D.J. there is an anti-Communist "Resistance" whose members pasted up anti-Communist posters in East Berlin with the message: "Ivan -Go Home!" Others distributed fake newspapers, their front pages strictly Communist, but the inside pages crammed with anti-Communist arguments...