Word: hoaxes
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...Committee charge implied that Yearbook Publications, which published Balzotti's name in the '57 Register, and the "Balzotti Election Committee," which entered his name in the Smoker campaign, were perpetrating a hoax...
...been pared to make them look more or less human. Unanswered still was the question of who had planted the fake. Dawson, who died in 1916 and whose monument stands near the Piltdown gravel pit, may have doctored the jawbone to make himself famous. More likely, the difficult hoax was perpetrated by an erudite joker who enjoyed in silent satisfaction his success in fooling the experts...
...excitement all began last Saturday, when news came from England that the skull of the famous "Piltdown Man," accepted for 40 years by authropologists and paleontologists as a relic of the earliest man, is actually a "most elaborate and carefully prepared hoax...
...professor said he doesn't believe for a moment that Charles Dawson, the attorney and amateur antiquarian who discovered the skull, is the perpetrator of the hoax. "I'm only guessing." he said, "but I think the joker was one of the technicians in the British Museum who had an ambition to fool the experts...
...Scouts. Reluctantly, DuPre admitted the hoax. He had started out, he said, just telling a small lie back in 1946, but everyone seemed so- interested that the lie "grew." DuPre spoke all over Canada, contributed the proceeds of his fame to the Boy Scouts and ordered his share of the royalties from the book (now in its third printing) turned over to them. DuPre, who had repeatedly said in the book that he had withstood torture only because of his great "faith in God," explained that the only reason for talking about his adventure at all was "to prove, especially...