Word: faking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Glamorous Grandma Marlene Dietrich winged into Buenos Aires on the second leg of her first Latin American tour. At a cozy press conference (some 300 newshounds, fake journalists and curiosity seekers) Marlene proved as entertaining as ever. Q. How do you maintain your youth? A. Work. Q. What do you do when you don't work? A. (Marlene smiled and stroked the head of her piano accompanist, Friedman Bachrach, 30, seated by her.) Q. So that's it? A. (Still smiling, she nodded.) Q. What else do you do besides sing and act? A. Counsel the lovelorn...
...that many of Houdini's vast audience actually believed he could communicate with spirits, that he had supernatural powers. But as the movies began to edge vaudeville into the wings, the master escapist earned most of his headlines by proving that anyone who claimed such magic was a fake. While he tilted with the table rappers and spook producers, he continued to produce new stunts for the stage. He was still at it in the fall of 1926, when he let a college boxer test his vaunted toughness by punching him in the belly. Less than ten days later...
...phony from the start. The Spitter was written 13 years ago by Boris Vian (a civil engineer by day, a jazz trumpeter in a Left Bank cave by night); its publishers claimed that it was a translation from a U.S. novel by one Vernon Sullivan. The public loved its fake sociology and integrated lust, but when police found a copy beside a murder victim and saw that the book was opened to the account of a similar crime, the Ministry of the Interior banned the book as objectionable "foreign" literature...
...monstrous, hairy creature 8 ft. tall, and a smaller one no bigger than a man. The monks of one Tibetan monastery display to travelers the scalp of an alleged snowman, and Heuvelmans argues that its hair pattern, much like a gorilla's, proves it is not a fake made out of some animal's skin. The remains of giant ape-men have been found in southeastern Asia, and the yetis may be their descendants...
Recently, when Milan's Maggioni pharmaceutical company learned that a drug counterfeit ring was using its label to sell fake tranquilizers, cortisone and heart tonics (distilled water for liquids, common starch for pills), the call went up for Tom and his 31-man "Mercury" detective agency. Going after a gang that he called "hairy-gutted animals-worse than Murder Inc.," Tom recorded conversations with suspects, using a tiny microphone worn like a wristwatch, snapped telephoto pictures with cameras guyed on field glasses, rigged up a periscope on the radio aerial of his car to enable him to peek inside...