Word: hoaxing
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Sidney Lovett, 68, chaplain of Yale University, is many things to many men. For some, he is the fun-loving chief figure in the Great Hoax of 1948, who appeared as the mustachioed guest speaker at a Yale charity banquet and had everyone convinced that he was Count Alexandri Cristea, "the oldest living member of the royal family of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen." For others he is the tolerant chaperon who turns up at student parties equipped with a London bobby's helmet and a whistle to blow should things get out of hand. He is also the coach...
...Hoax? The very origins of the show had one museum director crying that it was a "public-relations hoax." Sponsor of the show is Kansas City's Joyce C. Hall, president of Hallmark Cards, Inc., which has used Churchill paintings for its greeting cards. Hall first approached Churchill through his actress daughter Sarah (who has been sponsored on TV by Hallmark). Churchill refused. Then Hall went to England armed with a letter from Painter Dwight Eisenhower urging Churchill to permit a U.S. exhibition. Sir Winston thought it over, sent Hall a one-word cable: "Okay...
...football's greatest spoof-the mythical Plainfield Teachers College, invented by Stockbroker Morris Newburger, which each Saturday "defeated" fictitious opponents (Scott, Randolph Tech) largely through the exploits of a hard-running Chinese back named John Chung. After New York newspapers solemnly printed game scores, Adams revealed the hoax with a column beginning...
Complete with a picture of the victim and a strong statement from the police chief, the parody convinced many alumni. Most undergraduates nervously laughed the edition off as a Yale hoax. But at 1 p.m. they were somewhat shocked by 8,000 editions of the Daily Princetonian, which corroborated the messy details and added a few more...
...largest number of students, however, deprecated the whole affair. Most of those interviewed had heard nothing about the incident and consequently treated it as a hoax. "You Yale guys will do anything to win a ball game," one commented...