Word: hoax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...building up the young (established in 1932) institution. But he was not impressed by the gallery's collection of "old masters." Last week, addressing the gallery's Women's Committee, Director Eckhardt publicly announced the awful truth: The museum has been the victim of a mammoth hoax. Said he: "With the exception of the Canadian paintings and the eleven old German paintings on permanent loan, there is almost nothing which is really worthwhile in the permanent collection . . . The Titian is not a Titian, the Rubens is not a Rubens, and the Correggio not a Correggio...
...Penicillin. 60. Skull and jawbones which had long been attributed to a very ancient man turned out to belong to a relatively modern ape and a relatively modern man. Exposed as a hoax was the: 1. Neanderthal...
...tried to bite attendants." The wire services and the dozens of papers that ran the story (including the New York Herald Tribune and the Baltimore Sun) left out one detail about the "wolf boy," which every editor should have known: the story was a complete (and tragic) hoax, the same kind of hoax that crops up every year...
...meet." Track Coach Johnson, it was pointed out, has the final say on which Illini athletes enter collegiate track meets. "Well," said Coach Pond, "maybe we could enter him in A.A.U. competition." Growled Coach Johnson, who has refused to take even a peek at Browning: "It's a hoax...
...Hoax or not, Gymnast Browning, who is the National A.A.U. tumbling champion, was busy practicing tumbling jumps off one foot last week. Said he: "I'm determined to show them it can be done...