Word: counterfeiter
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Mayes hailed a passing police car and told his story. The cops were suspicious, but he had himself booked on a technical charge of disturbing the peace so he could take a lie-detector test, which he passed with flying colors. His $300 windfall also passed all-tests for counterfeit or stolen money. This week Cecil Mayes is spending some of it on wooing his girl in Wisconsin...
...they lived for nearly a quarter of a century, patching a life of torment into a counterfeit of happiness. Then, after World War II, the film version of Devil in the Flesh appeared, and all the old wounds were ripped open once again. Five years later, in 1952, Alice died. "Everything they wrote about us was untrue," she whispered to her husband as death approached. "I did nothing wrong." Already old in his late 50s, his spirit corroded by doubt, his neglected son a crippled invalid in the care of strangers, Gaston gazed at his dying wife...
...letter was accompanied by a broken wristwatch marked "Bulov 17" on the dial. Bulova needed only one look at the misspelled trademark to see that they were fakes. Since most of the letters were from Chicago, Bulova hired private detectives to roam through the Loop area looking for the counterfeit Bulovas. Before long they picked up 250 from sidewalk peddlers. Last week Chicago police arrested William Furie, 51, as the ringleader of a group that had sold at least 100,000 phony Bulova watches...
...Paris' Autumn Salon of 1905. His works were hung in a room apart, with those of some other young rebels named Rouault, Derain and Vlaminck. A critic promptly dubbed them Les Fauves-"Wild Beasts." Never since the Dark Ages (when artist-monks symbolized reality, instead of trying to counterfeit it, in their illuminations) had painters used colors so arbitrarily. Matisse's colors were the brightest he could buy, brushed in flat and separated by dancing lines. A tree might be turquoise or tangerine, a river russet, a girl gold, with green hair...
...Stalin, and thus touch off a purge that would gut the Soviet high command. Stalin bit, even paid 3,000,000 rubles for the forged bait, and in the trials of 1937, purged Tukhachevsky and all his confederates. The rubles, says Hoettl in an ironic footnote, were counterfeit; the first German agent who spent them in Russia was promptly arrested...