Word: forgers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very first rounds of Pont-l'Evéque prison, Warden Billa found a kindred spirit in René Grainville, a forger and car thief. "You know," René told him, "I'm only here because of wild oats sown in my youth. I'm really a poet, and I've written several novels." Billa was fascinated. "You," Billa said at last, "are obviously misplaced. I appoint you prison accountant...
...collections of Europe; of an embolism; in Arlesheim, Switzerland. To prove that the Last Supper in his collection was a genuine Vermeer, Van Beuningen brought suit in 1952 against famed Belgian Art Expert Paul Coremans, who claimed that the picture was actually one of the fakes that Dutch Art Forger Hans van Meegeren started unloading on the European art market in the late 1930s. Van Beuningen died two days before the oft-postponed suit was to come to trial in Brussels...
...giant of Western statesmen, who was about to be ousted from power, raised glass to Marshal Stalin, who, "in peace no less than in war, will continue to lead his people from success to success." Stalin drank to the health of the President of the U.S.. "the chief forger of the instruments [for] mobilization of the world against Hitler." Franklin Delano Roosevelt, gentleman by birth and democrat by career, who was soon to die, offered his toast, to "give every man, woman and child on this earth the possibility of security and well-being...
...Sexually suggestive cartoons and in some instances semihidden pornography." Capp had no trouble recognizing the photostats as the same ones Fisher has been passing around. Exploded Capp: "These are forgeries . . . We conducted an investigation of the source of the forgeries. We are in the last stage of finding the forger." Furthermore, the exhibits were not taken from his newspaper strip, but from comic books over which he had no control...
...beck, Germany, 500 spectators crowded into a local courtroom last week for the end of one of the most spectacular trials the town had ever seen. Star performer was Lothar Malskat, 41, the accomplished art forger who confessed that he and his accomplice Dietrich Fey had faked the murals in Lübeck's medieval St. Mary's Church (TIME, Oct. 27,1952). In his rush to put himself and partner in jail, Forger Malskat seemed determined to involve Lübeck's most respected burghers and much of the German art world as well...