Word: faked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...novel. Edith, 39, will stay and paint in Ibiza. But even if the Irvings have not settled all their differences, Clifford has managed to bury at least one hatchet in Ibiza-with Elmyr de Hory, 63, the master art forger. The subject of Irving's 1969 book called Fake!, De Hory was offended when Irving failed to show him the prepublication manuscript as promised...
...immigrant Sicilian feather importer, Swaggi began his career at age twelve selling fake "Parker" pens. Soon Eighth-Grader Vincent was pulling in "seventy or eighty bucks a week ... twice as much as my teachers." Flushed with the thrill of "the score," he passed up high school to study the practical wisdom of hustlers like "Willie the Wop," "Cigar Face Joe" and "Abe the Louse." During the Depression, Swaggi boasts he saved $10,000 in one year. By age 23 he had hustled his way through more than a decade of crime in four cities under two aliases...
...Since April, however, attempts by Dressler's group to duplicate the results have been unsuccessful, raising doubts among scientists about the experiments. In the light of the revelations about Rosenfeld, the April cutoff date seems significant; it suggests to some researchers that news of last spring's fake research scandal at Manhattan's Sloan Kettering Institute (TIME, April 29) may have given pause to anyone tampering with the Harvard experiments...
CORNERBACKS: Neal Colzie, Ohio State, 6 ft. 2 in., 202 lbs. He can beat you many ways. Colzie is tough to fake in or out and hits with a crunch...
Bond started at mid field, slipped off one Yale forward, dodged another with a fake pitch and tripped up a third with a graceful stutter step before slipping a pass to hooker Tom Grady, who ran the ball...