Word: fakes
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...Yale News crashed through at midgame with their second journalistic soup of the day, a fake issue of the Crimson announcing that President of Chicago, had been named to replace him. Earlier in the day, the Elm City typographers had announced Harlow's resignation...
Three Harvard plays, including a fake kick a la Statue of Liberty, were stopped cold, and Spreyer again used the wind to good advantage on a fifty-yard punt to Burr...
...photograph of the lady in tights, carrying my wife's name, is a fake, without even a remote resemblance to justify the blunder...
...hoax, as the French charged, a fake accident staged and executed by Hitler's own henchmen to bring the Führer close to martyrdom and thus rally waning popular support for the regime? Was it another Reichstag fire? What about the mysterious and providential changes in plan? What about the fact that not a single big-shot Nazi remained in the beer hall even though the Führer's prompt departure was unforeseen? Despite these startling coincidences, this theory was hardly more credible than the German charge that Winston Churchill sank the Athenia...
...exchange at the Shubert this week, where "DuBarry Was a Lady" is the attraction. You put down your money and you get a Cole Porter revue, costumed, syncopated, gagged, and sexed up to the hilt. Ethel Merman and Bert Lahr perform in their best manner, with everything from the fake marble walls of a night-club men's room to the tufted satin of Louis XV's court as settings. Their special brand of humor seems even funnier when its spice is set off against the elegance of the French court...