Word: forgers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Firms have dropped their inhibitions about pirating talent. "It's not unusual to receive a call offering a package of six partners from another firm with a promise of $10 million of business," says Chairman Alex Forger of Manhattan's Milbank, Tweed. Meanwhile, by publicizing balance sheets and pay scales throughout the profession, aggressive trade publications like the American Lawyer, the National Law Journal and Legal Times have awakened ambitious attorneys to the greener pastures they might enter by jumping to a rival firm. Says Jonathan Spivak, who heads a Washington legal search firm: "It's like baseball...
Suppose further, in an example that is probably familiar to some members of our immediate community, that a Black, female Harvard student buying a dress in Bonwit Teller is not a credit card forger. Then she probably has the means to spend that kind of money on clothes. What effect do the preceeding Black characters have on proprietors or store clerks or real estate agents who are not Black? These nonstereotypical Blacks are bothersome to whites and others...
...caught in a trap. Cornish is a painter of the old world. The spirit that motivates him is meaningless in this world, so Cornish escapes by painting in the medieval style and becomes a forger...
...months that followed, the small group privy to the secret gathered for "reading hours" as each shipment of the black, imitation leather-bound diaries arrived. As their excitement grew, Heidemann's estimate of the number of extant volumes more than doubled. Meanwhile, in a small room near Stuttgart, Forger Kujau was laboring furiously, filling ordinary classroom notebooks purchased in East Germany with facts cobbled together from history texts and his own imagination. "Must not forget to get tickets for the Olympic Games for Eva Braun," read one 1936 entry. "On my feet all day long," complained the Fuhrer in another...
DIED. Tom Keating, 66, ebullient, white-bearded master art forger; of a heart attack; in Colchester, England. A modest art restorer, Keating became the center of a scandal in 1976 when the London Times discovered that he had faked and sold at least 13 works, purportedly by Samuel Palmer (1805-81), the English painter. Keating admitted that he had churned out about 2,500 imitation masterpieces in 25 years-at prices as high as $35,000-including paintings in the style of Degas, Renoir, Turner and Constable. Keating's case went to trial in 1979, but charges were dropped...