Word: hoax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...secret was that his great-grandfather had constructed the first U.S. bathtub. I said to my mother that the man was mistaken." Bill wrote Garry Moore a caustic letter pointing out that all his facts about the first bathtub were based on a famed newspaper hoax written in 1917 by H. L. Mencken. Garry Moore never answered...
...Cruel Hoax. Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber's L'Express (circ. 75,000) promptly slashed at the Elle charges with double-page center spreads in defense "of that most fragile of human mechanisms: a poet." The paper ran photostats of Minou's green-inked scribbling, complete with its own expert's handwriting analysis ("imagination, energy, naive assurance") and psychological deductions ("harmoniously developed, neither stupid, nor poor nor vulgar...
...week's end, Elle dropped all caution and prepared its coup de grace for this week's issue. Charged Helene Lazareff: "A cruel hoax. Mile. Drouet not only thought up all of Minou's poems but we have evidence that she also wrote them herself, in pseudo-childish handwriting...
Actually the swim, undertaken as a physical outburst against his family, ended as a hoax; and the newspaper description of him as an "ex-Harvard star" drew only one comment from Crimson swimming coach Harold S. Ulen: "I never saw any starts...
...comrade-in-arms. The President promptly presented an autographed pen set and an American radio to Zhukov as a gift for the bride (TIME, Aug. 1). A few days later Reuters, a British news service, spread throughout the world a silly story that the wedding was a hoax because Zhukov actually had no daughter. The picture was Marshal Zhukov's way of answering Reuters...