Word: forgers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...action is similar to the power of the person who decides to commit suicide. The suicide has the enormous power to take anyone along with him. Murder in the open (and most murders are not secret) is suicide. Assassins are murders too--something we often forger. Sirhan Sirhan merely acted, merely killed Robert Kennedy, probably to kill himself in the most powerful way he could. But the reasons Sirhan killed Kennedy (that he was an Arab and Kennedy liked the Israelis) are reasons we ascribe to Sirhan. We have to have explanations; that is why we cannot admit that Oswald...
...HAPPENED IN BOSTON? by Russell H. Greenan. In this sprightly first novel, a witty but deranged narrator, park-bench dreamer and master painter tells of the ludicrous events that made him a forger and murderer anxious to meet and kill...
...that ancient civilizations of South America were somehow influenced by Middle Eastern culture, Gordon carefully compared the Paraíba inscription with the latest work on Phoenician writing. He found that it contained nuances and quirks of Phoenician style that could not have been known to a 19th century forger. "The alternatives are either that the inscription is genuine," said Gordon, "or that the guy was a great prophet...
Convinced he had picked up a forger's scent, Noble made tests to determine the specific gravity of the horse, found it was too low for solid bronze but about right if the statue had a sand core, held in place by iron wire and tacks-which is how French bronze statues in the 1920s were cast. Ordinary X-ray equipment would not penetrate deeply enough to show the interior of the sculpture. But on Sept. 15, Noble, using equipment developed to inspect the six-inch-thick steel hulls of nuclear submarines, was able to have a gamma...
...case. Harlan pointed out that the Post had faced no deadline in preparing the "fix" article. Yet despite a denial from Butts, the magazine had taken not even the most elementary steps to verify its story. The original source had been an Atlanta insurance salesman and convict ed check forger, George Burnett, who was accidentally plugged into a phone call between Butts and Bryant. No Post reporter even looked at Burnett's notes of the conversation before the article was published. Nor did anyone interview a man who was in the room with Burnett during the call. No attempt...