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...marks of the scourge on the back of "the man of the shroud" seem to make the same pattern that would have been made by Roman scourges of the time - a pattern unlikely to be known to a faker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Mystery of the Cloth | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

Gian-Carlo Menotti had good reason for counting every patron. For production in the close academic air of Columbia University, he had composed a compact little two-act opera called The Medium, and it had gone on Broadway. It was a grim and eerie story of an old faker who finally, at one of her seances, feels the touch of one of the spirits she has pretended to reach for so many years, and consequently goes mad. It was hardly a cheery subject; moreover, it was all 'opera. Every line and word was sung, and its music yielded nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Composer on Broadway | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

Outdoor Smells. Only rarely does Editor Weyer get trapped by a nature faker. Once he printed a letter about a whale swallowing a man, written by "Egerton Y. Davis Jr.," an "eyewitness." A reader hastened to point out that the "eyewitness" was using a pseudonym of the late great physician and practical joker Sir William Osler. What Weyer should also have known: there is no authenticated instance in natural history of a whale swallowing a man. Last December, Weyer had his printing ink mixed with tangy pine chemicals to give the magazine an "outdoor" smell. When allergic readers wrote watery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Daffodils & Dinosaurs | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

...given up one bit of his overworked function of calling names, Pegler printed his own "amended answer" to Pearson's complaint in his second suit. Wrote Pegler: "[Pearson] is a habitual, incorrigible, professional liar, as distinguished from an occasional or accidental liar ... Plaintiff is a liar, faker and blackguard from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: From A to Z | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...other passes go mostly to end Brad Quackenbush on short patterns. John Setear, who was used extensively in this capacity last year, caught a few passes in the first quarter at Princeton and then served as a faker for the rest of the game...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: Eli Gridders Defy 'Injuries" for Harvard Tilt | 11/18/1949 | See Source »

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