Word: fake
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stuffing his script into his pocket, Harry Truman added that he wanted to give the reporters a lecture on fake stories about cease-fires and armistices. He recalled that he had been marching his battery down a road in France on Oct. 27, 1918, when someone handed him a French paper with a headline announcing that an armistice had been signed. Just then a 150-mm. shell burst about 100 yards away on one side of the road, and then another on the other side. That story was put out by Roy Howard (president of Scripps-Howard newspapers), said Truman...
...aspiring astronaut almost overplayed the gag. After a London tabloid splashed a picture of the "passport" across half a page, hundreds of people asked for passports and announced their readiness to trade this world for another. Plaintively the society announced that it was all a fake-they were not prepared to sell any round-trip tickets from Liverpool Airport to Mars. They had never even bought any shares in "British Milky Way Space Ships, Inc." Then the scientists went back to what they know how to handle: their telescopes, their rocket motors, and the antiseptic world of interstellar mathematics...
Last week Air Force Staff Sergeant Roy C. Burnham walked into the Savannah Morning News, sister paper of the Savannah Evening Press which had run the picture that day. He branded it a fake. With him, Burnham had an identical picture in color, which he had obtained from an Air Force photo laboratory technician in England in 1944. The technician, whose name Burnham did not remember, had told Burnham he had taken a picture of a B-17 bombing mission over Europe and painted in the picture of Christ. He planned to sell pictures to airmen as souvenirs. Said Burnham...
Fullback Tom Ossman injured his knee in practice last Wednesday and didn't do any running Thursday or Friday. On the train to Yale. Josh Williams, Bob Margarita, and Jordan got together to figure out a play to replace the effectiveness of the fullback fake pitchout. They came up with the wingback reverse wih a fake to the tailback in motion--the play on which John Ederer went 84 yards to score...
...that they were paid. But the claimants had to submit proof, preferably a photograph. He went after the Huks with their own tricks and their own cunning. They dressed their fighters in women's clothes; so did Magsaysay. They picked at army communications with phony messages and fake letters; Magsaysay disrupted their communications even more with the same tactics and with sharp, well-planned forays...