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Applied Science. In Mexico City, when Forger Roberto Hernandez did not appear in court, it was explained that he had already forged his release from the federal pen and escaped...
MAJOR BYRON: THE INCREDIBLE CAREER OF A LITERARY FORGER (217 pp.)-Theodore G. Ehrsam-Boesen...
...Major Byron, N.Y.U.'s Professor Ehrsam has done the best job of literary detective work on the forger in print. He is himself sadly handicapped because: 1) the slippery major left few biographical traces, 2) Major Byron was first written as a Ph.D. thesis, and after two rewritings is still more awkward and pedestrian than even most doctoral dissertations. Yet Dr. Ehrsam sometimes proves himself a shrewder hand than his literary betters in the treacherous field of literary hokum...
...help administer psychological tests, and the warden simply gestured toward the cell blocks and told him: "You have 2,000 men to choose from." Convict assistants had not figured in Wilson's blueprint. But he wound up with six of them: a safecracker, a smuggler, a counterfeiter, a forger, a gangster and an innocent who had taken the rap for a woman...
Soon after, the other suspect quit his job; then another chock was passed two days ago. Three officers arrested Knaus at his Mt. Vernon Street home yesterday afternoon. A Cambridge Trust teller identified him as the forger...