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...financial: rumors in Bonn's press circles had the magazine paying $4 million for its "discovery." Other insiders considered that figure too low. The discrediting of the diaries enhanced the reputations of some historians and forgery experts who had quickly concluded that the diaries were fraudulent. New York Autograph Dealer Charles Hamilton had taken one long look at photocopies of a few of the diary excerpts and pronounced them too consistent and too smooth to be credible. "Hitler's handwriting was full of power and force," he said. "It was tormented, impetuous, so that when he wanted to make...
Downfall of a bullion dealer...
...business in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., into the International Gold Bullion Exchange (IGBE), a thriving enterprise with 1,000 employees, branch offices in Dallas and Los Angeles, and 1982 sales of $80 million. William Alderdice, the company's chief executive, bragged that IGBE was the biggest gold and silver dealer in the U.S. In television commercials and ads splashed across such newspapers as the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, IGBE offered to sell precious metals at exceptionally low prices. There was just one catch: customers had to wait several months for delivery of the coins or bullion...
...copies in two weeks, and is now moving off the shelves at the rate of 50,000 to 100,000 a day-welcome news to a music business that has been in a four-year slump. Says Jack Kiernan, executive vice president of lucky PolyGram records: "A dealer in Chicago just told me, 'It feels like 1978 all over again.'" That was the year of Paramount's Saturday Night Fever, another movie about a working-class dancer, which grossed $258 million worldwide and sold more than 30 million double albums. "It's too early to call...
...sample diary pages that were made available seems to lack the bold sweep of Hitler's hand and to understate some of his characteristic quirks, like curling the end of each line down and to the right (see box). Said Charles Hamilton, a noted New York City autograph dealer and author of a forthcoming book called Autographs of the Third Reich: "The genuine writing is full of power and force. In the diary samples that I saw, all the letters shake, as though they were drawn, not written...