Word: gerguson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fitting footnote to the life of a legendary impostor who at various times passed himself off as Rasputin's assassin, the son of Victorian Prime Minister William Gladstone and a cousin of Czar Nicholas II. Actually, there is evidence that he was born Harry F. Gerguson, the son of Russian immigrants. After trying his hand at farming, peddling papers and bumming, the flamboyant phony with the Oxbridge accent migrated West in 1927. In Hollywood, Romanoff was accepted as an off-camera actor in an actor's town; he opened his first restaurant there...