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...Kamchatka, Siberia later flew on to Nome. Because of the text of Movie's first radio message to his fiancée, saying "have Frank put publicity man on job," the flyers' backers were obliged to make heated denials that the plane's disappearance was a hoax...
...there was no suggestion of hoax in the rescue at sea of Willy Rody, Christian Johanssen and Fernando Costa Viega whose Junkers monoplane Esa fell into the sea on their transatlantic flight from Portugal last fortnight (TIME, Sept. 21). A Norwegian freighter found them afloat off Cape Pine...
Occasionally it seems as though the art of exposing the truth is the only thing that modern scholarship can do with its time. This is deplorable enough. But when matters progress so far that a good, honest hoax is cut off in the very blossoms of popularity. It is allowable that conscientious Americans should object. The baring of the art hoax in Boston yesterday, a mere three years after Upton Sinclair had told his small world of readers about it, is clearly a case that cannot be handled in town meeting. Progressive action is demanded...
Pickwick Papers was published two years before the date on the Moundsville Stone, was doubtless the inspiration for the hoax. Hoaxes have included: Bureau of American Ethnology, Congress of Americanists (France), scores of scholars...
Although recent tilts in the Cambridge field of humor have been a bit disappointing, it appears from a story found in a recent issue of the "Daily Princetonian" that true wit has not yet died. It seems that two editors of the enterprising "Cornell Sun", determined to achieve the hoax of the year, produced a fiction by the name of Hugo N. Frye the founder of the Republican Party in New York State, and decided to hold a Sesquicentennial celebration in his honor...