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...John Hopley, 48, of San Antonio, won the title of World's Champion Liar, awarded annually by the Burlington, Wis. Liars Club. His story: while he and Charley Skorpea were playing pool for the championship of Boggy Creek Bottoms, a fly lighted on the eightball. "Charley chalked his cue-a 47-ounce, solid-oak Brunswick-and knocked the eight-ball out from under the fly so fast that it fell on the table and broke its back...
...Kids of Glen Cove, L.I. gave a Chamber of Commerce Santa Claus a drubbing when his candy gave out and they discovered that the packages on his sleigh were nothing but dummies. Muttered one departing youngster: "Santa Claus is a liar...
...shortly before & after the Civil War. Hopping nimbly from region to region, Brooks lovingly sketches their literary manners-the rash of reform movements in New York, "attractional harmony and passional hygiene . . . water cure and Graham Bread"; the burly tall tales of the Far West where Joaquin Miller, "the greatest liar living . . . half a mountebank and all the time a showman," turned out crude, vigorous sketches of pioneer life; the sad whimsies of the post bellum South, where Constance Fenimore Woolson's "imagination lingered over the relics of the ancient South, the tumbledown battered houses and forlorn plantations...
...founders and onetime president. Slim Jim Carey, now the C.I.O.'s secretary-treasurer, knew that he had not the slimmest chance of unhorsing the top trio, but he carried his fight to the floor. Matles and Fitzgerald gave Carey the full name-calling treatment: "Liar . . . stab in the back . . . tool of the employers. . . . Redbaiting ... no purpose save to capture control of the union for outsiders...
Then Texas-born Hughes went on to describe himself: "I'm supposed to be capricious, a playboy, eccentric, but I don't believe I have the reputation of a liar. For 23 years nobody has questioned my word. I think my reputation in that respect meets what most Texans consider important...