Word: fake
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Undoubtedly the high point of the football dominated fall came with a headline on a fake CRIMSON to the effect that Princeton football coach Roper had died during the game with Harvard. This fraud issue greeted the 54,000 fans packed into the Stadium after the Tiger had convincingly beaten Harvard. The upshot of the affair was that Princeton formally, and with the wounded pride which comes with unprovoked criticism, severed athletic connections with Harvard...
Berlitz English. Neither was Rizzoli deterred when Novelist Guareschi published one of the fake letters involving ex-Premier de Gasperi and got a year's prison sentence for libel (TIME, April 26). Publisher Rizzoli bought a batch of the letters for a down payment of $20,000 and began spraying them across the front pages of Oggi...
...Faking Something. In the '403, revolt begins to taste ashy. As Dick sees it, "below rationality and reason . . . neither Brace nor I had anything. Nothing at all.'' Eager to replace nothing with something, Brace marries an earnest, straightforward Roman Catholic boy and embraces his faith. Dick goes into his father's lumber business but increasingly embraces the bottle and "used women, women who at one time had been firmly in the possession of others ... It is like buying a used car ... If you scratch it you need not feel guilty or angry . . ." When Brace finds that...
...Boston. In Chicago, Howey became city editor of the Tribune at 25, editor of the Hearst Her aid-Examiner ten years later. Ignoring events outside Chicago, Editor Howey concentrated on local mayhem and scandal, paid police-switchboard operators to tip him off on the latest crime, delighted in planting fake stories in opposition newspapers. In Boston, a mellowed top Hearst executive, he took time off to develop an automatic photoengraving machine (1931), a "soundphoto" system of transmitting photographs by wire...
Faded Waltzes. The plot takes Macheath through a fake marriage with pretty Polly Peachum, two betrayals by one of his earlier loves, and right up to the moment of his execution-when he is saved by a royal pardon. Beaten into the mixture of bawdry and cynicism are a couple of bitter speeches of social protest, written in a heavy Teutonic style that even Blitzstein's tart translation could not leaven...