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Until last year the youngest brigadier in the Continental Army was a forger of ship anchors in Coventry, Rhode Island. He has little formal education but used to study Euclid and military history beside his forge at night. Though raised a Quaker, Greene helped form a militia troop to resist British tyranny. When other members of his troop thought he should be disqualified from command because of a game leg, Greene characteristically offered to serve as a private. But his talent as a leader, especially in acquiring and organizing supplies, was quickly noticed. He progressed from private to general within...
...Thompson faces the prospect of residing in an Illinois prison for up to 40 months. Other states have asked for information on him and are making extradition plans. Yet the forger will not devote the rest of his career to making license plates. So impressed are Illinois investigators with Thompson's exploits that they have offered him a guest lectureship. If the offer is approved, he will be escorted out of the pokey for brief periods to explain to state police just...
While Christ may in fact never have signed his name-maybe he used a cross -a daring 19th century French forger sold spurious signatures of Mary Magdalene, Pontius Pilate and Lazarus (after his resurrection). Some of the great forgeries have acquired genuine value, notably a play purported to be by Shakespeare that was "discovered" by 18year-old William Henry Ireland in 1795 and was actually produced in London by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (the first-night audience howled it down...
...Recognitions, a major postwar American novel that is still largely unknown and unappreciated. In nearly 1,000 pages, the then 33-year-old author took on the godless 20th century. Through his hero, a man who turned from the priesthood to become an artist and then an expert forger of old Flemish masters, Gaddis spun the platonic metaphysics of reality and imitation into exciting fiction...
WHEN A HARVARD team of biochemists lept into national attention in December with the announcement that their undergraduate co-worker was letter-forger and that their recent breakthroughs in cancer-related immunology might also be bogus, all sorts of interesting people around the University began running for cover...