Word: hoax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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City councillor John D. Lynch said yesterday that he thought the scheduled debate with Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, associate professor of History, on "How to Combat Communism in the United States" was a "big hoax...
...sponsors of the debate, the democratic Club, assured Lynch that the debate is no hoax and will come of as announced; 8 p.m. tomorrow at Emerson...
...gadfly in the ear of Washington's officialdom, demanding and pleading for a new trial. He got a break. The prosecutor received two anonymous letters from a man who said that he, and not Williams, was guilty. Assistant Corporation Counsel Clark F. King denounced the letters as a hoax and the work of a crackpot, but on the strength of them, Williams' lawyers got a new hearing for him. But still Defendant Williams' troubles multiplied. Prosecutor King produced a police handwriting expert who solemnly testified that Williams' 18-year-old daughter Evangeline had written the letters...
...Albert Morris . . . expert on anthropology . . . declared that the bean pot was definitely authentic and 'at least 50 years old . . .' " Following the sound rule of never trying to make a chump of a city editor, Wood also candidly tipped the city desks that it was just a polite hoax...
...spread the adventure across Page Two (Asahi's top spot for "sensational" news). Not so impressed were Kobe's police. They went over the story again & again with Police Reporter Nagaoka, each time noting discrepancies. Finally, Nagaoka broke down and confessed: the whole story was a hoax...