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...possible Hoax...
...younger days, Hofma-m spent some time composing, credited his pieces to one Michel Dvorsky, whom he liked to describe as a poor, sickly Pole living in Spain. Hofmann still plays "Dvorsky" music, much of it reminiscent of the Chopin he reveres. But the hoax was exploded years ago when someone took the trouble to translate Hofmann into Polish, found that it meant Dvorsky...
...Constantine Brown to the State Department from which Homeric mirth soon resounded. Waggish Editor Noyes of the Star pushed matters one notch farther by having someone call up Brown and tell him excitedly that by mistake the special Iran edition was being run off as the regular edition, a hoax on Brown which evoked even more mirth. An Englishwoman, the Great Khan's wife has challenged Iranian public opinion by dismissing Iranian servants of the Iranian Legation in Washington, hiring French and British...
...Miller that his real name was not "Tex" Maness, but "Ted" Key. The Dean duly reported this irregularity to Pacific Coast Conference authorities, pleading clemency for the boy. Only penalty meted out to Key was ineligibility for U. C. L. A. freshman athletics. Declaring that he was glad the hoax was over, last week "Shorty" Key confessed: ". . . Before God the paramount reason I went to U. C. L. A. under the alias was to get a degree so I could coach! I figured I'd only be able to play in the California game anyway. A friend of mine...
...captioned it: MAN FLIES ON HIS OWN POWER FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY (TIME, April 23, 1934). The picture showed a man on skis propelling himself off the ground by puffing into a pair of rotors. It was a fine picture, a fine story and, unfortunately, a fine hoax, concocted as an April Fool joke by the editors of Germany's Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung...