Word: hoax
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...last week jerked the editors of Paris' evening paper l'Intransigeant from their mulling over the Stavisky scandal. Soon across the front pages of the world Press flashed what promised to be either the archeological story-of-the-year or the year's No. 1 archeological hoax. André Malraux is a handsome young writer who has done some poking around in French Indo-China. In 1933 he was awarded the Prix Goncourt, top French literary kudos. Last month in a plane borrowed from a friend in the airmail service he and Capt. Corniglion Molinier, army pilot...
...Constantine Maltsev, Assistant Commissar for Education. He, for one, did not bite, did not laugh. Instead he called the OGPU. One editor, arrested on a charge of trying to obtain money under false pretenses, was quickly released. But when the Crocodile set about telling the story of its hoax, the Soviet high command firmly shushed...
...glacier. Two years later America II also got into trouble. Before America II could make another try, Peary reached the Pole afoot and Explorer Wellman lost interest. However, his Arctic experience enabled him to sense, prove, and write a famed report of Dr. Frederick Cook's monumental hoax...
...This broadcast seriously interfered with the work of 65 State police. No shots have been fired by any authorized officer searching for the ten prisoners. . . We wasted several hours ... in determining there was no truth to substantiate the broadcast and in making an inquiry into the hoax. ... I desire the Federal Radio Commission to make a complete investigation. . . ." A day later he withdrew his protest, "pending further investigation...
...making its own inquiry. First thing it did was to discharge WIND's program manager. But it insisted that the broadcast had been made with the approval and assistance of the authorities. "Intensive investigation which is not yet complete indicates that this broadcast, far from being a hoax, was substantially correct," said the company. "The investigation does show, however, that a responsible and experienced Columbia man . . . did connive at increasing the number of shots, although there were shots of spontaneous origin. We are satisfied that when Capt.Leach has completed his investigation he will find that our own determination...