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...sell his phony Hughes book as well as a new novel. Edith, 39, will stay and paint in Ibiza. But even if the Irvings have not settled all their differences, Clifford has managed to bury at least one hatchet in Ibiza-with Elmyr de Hory, 63, the master art forger. The subject of Irving's 1969 book called Fake!, De Hory was offended when Irving failed to show him the prepublication manuscript as promised...
Started 21 months ago, the program has so far handled 58 felons chosen at random from convicted thieves, forgers and the like in Minnesota prisons. The victim and the convict must work out a written contract. Forger Jerry Bixby, for instance, is now working to pay a debt of $643 in installments of $33 a month. When the victim refuses to cooperate, a symbolic contract establishes a set number of hours of unpaid volunteer work to make good the crime...
...many among the 10 million North American bird watchers, it was almost as if John James Audubon had been exposed as a forger or the American eagle reclassified as a turkey vulture. In fact, the American Ornithologists' Union, the Vatican of bird watching, has come perilously close to such heresy. A pronunciamento in the A.O.U. magazine Auk stripped the Baltimore oriole of its name; henceforth Icterus galbula will be known by the prosaic name "northern oriole." A dozen other busted species include the European teal (to green-winged teal), Audubon's warbler and the myrtle warbler (to yellow...
Last week Yale announced that the map may be the work of a skilled 20th century forger. Using an intricate form of small-particle analysis that employs techniques developed since 1957, a Chicago firm found that the map's ink contained traces of anatase, a form of titanium dioxide whose properties were not known before the 1920s. Said Witten: "I have always said the Vinland map was controversial and that arguments about it were likely to continue for generations. I could not feel any other way than sad." About the way that 10,000 others-who paid $15 each...
Well then, who had? Citing similar incidents in the past, knowing Saigonese suggested that the CIA might have used expert forgers as a means of punishing the corrupt minister, who was scarcely in a position to complain. All a forger would need in such a case would be an authentic check and a signature with which to practice, or the cipher code of a numbered account. Once that is provided, Swiss banks cash checks for almost any amount with few questions asked. As one banker put it last week...