Word: hoax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Later in a message at chapel Dean Walker exposed the story as a hoax, but added that officials were considering a special course for "Herald" reporters, "to teach them how to read the calendar and tell the difference between Jan. 15 and April...
Last night, however, Balzotti was still missing. Neither his committee nor Alan J. Geyer, president of the Yearbook, had been able to find him. Geyer, accused of collaborating with Balzotti's supporters in attempting to hoax the freshman class in its smoker elections, admitted that he had no idea "where the crazy...
With Balzotti missing a rumor has continued to circulate in the Yard that the Yearbook Publications and a group of freshmen who call themselves the "Balzotti Election Committee," have conspired to engineer a large scale hoax on the freshman class...
...Committee charge implied that Yearbook Publications, which published Balzotti's name in the '57 Register, and the "Balzotti Election Committee," which entered his name in the Smoker campaign, were perpetrating a hoax...
...been pared to make them look more or less human. Unanswered still was the question of who had planted the fake. Dawson, who died in 1916 and whose monument stands near the Piltdown gravel pit, may have doctored the jawbone to make himself famous. More likely, the difficult hoax was perpetrated by an erudite joker who enjoyed in silent satisfaction his success in fooling the experts...