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...Dalmia has come to believe that he is indeed one among men, possessing unusual spiritual qualities. "I shall die peacefully with a smile on my face, "he once wrote, "an enviable state unattainable by ordinary men." And in the style of Indian saintly ones, he is always ready to confess his past misdeeds. Three years ago Dalmia confessed that he had made a big contribution to a government chanty, expecting that he would not therefore "be dragged into the sphere of action of the Income Tax Investigation Commission...
...fact, while he will not outright admit to disproving it, the somewhat close mouthed Birch does confess that he and his researchers have made the theory that convection current beneath the earth's surface are related to the mountains, "highly improbably...
...hard to imagine DuPre expecting to get away with it." There was no denying the Herald's expose. Author Reynolds announced candidly that he had been "duped" by the "greatest hoax ever perpetrated." Reader's Digest Editor DeWitt Wallace was equally stunned, explained that the Digest would confess its error in its January issue. "This mistake," said Random House's President Bennett Cerf, "is a beaut...
...wife and be sure of Heaven, than to be Queen of all the world and stand in doubt thereof." When Henry pressed her to agree that their marriage had been "unlawful" because she had been married briefly to his dead brother, she retorted that this would be "to confess to having been the King's harlot this 24 years." After Henry broke with the Roman Catholic Church and married Anne Boleyn, Katherine instructed adolescent Mary: "[Obey] the King your father in everything, save only that you will not offend God and lose your own soul...
...Agreement. In Los Angeles, after forcing Grocery Clerk George Albert to hand over $1,263.61 in a paper bag, a gunman eyed his loot, remarked: "It don't look like a lot, but you can report it as $10,000. If they catch me, I'll confess to that sum. Are you happy...