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In Calgary, Reynolds dined with DuPre and the mayor, saw DuPre together with high government officials, and went to an R.C.A.F. officers' party in DuPre's honor. "Everyone was delighted," says Reynolds, "that at last DuPre was to get recognition outside of Canada." Even though R.C.A.F. officers spoke...
The Herald got the first hint that something was wrong from an anonymous tipster who had read the Digest story. He told the Herald that he had enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force with DuPre in 1942, although the book said that DuPre was in France at the time...
Collins, a onetime British Intelligence agent himself, had no trouble punching holes in the fabulous yarn. From R.C.A.F. records and scrapbooks of ex-R.C.A.F. officers, he found out that DuPre had never been in France during the war. He had spent a total of 13 months with an intelligence...
Boy Scouts. Reluctantly, DuPre admitted the hoax. He had started out, he said, just telling a small lie back in 1946, but everyone seemed so- interested that the lie "grew." DuPre spoke all over Canada, contributed the proceeds of his fame to the Boy Scouts and ordered his share of...
Last week, after the Herald's expose, DuPre was "in a state of collapse" and "under doctor's care." Said Author Reynolds: "I am shocked and sad and very sorry for George." Random House Publisher Cerf took a more commercial view: this week he offered to refund the...