Word: hoaxing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Valtin-Krebs was living last week in New York with his girl-wife, 17-year-old Abigail Harris. Around the former German terrorist and Red agent swirled a storm of conjecture and argument: was his autobiography true or a hoax? Valtin-Krebs & friends said it was true; no respectable evidence has yet been produced to show that it was anything else. And if it was true, under present alien laws, he was liable to deportation back to the Germany whence he had fled...
...TIME'S research department a sharp rap on the knuckles for not detecting that the picture showing outgoing Vice President Garner telephoning from a lonely chair in an otherwise empty office was a photographer's hoax -merely taken in the outer reception room, from which a desk had been removed for refinishing. Actually Mr. Garner removed no Vice-Presidential furniture; the same that served him will serve incoming Vice President Wallace...
...position given was Freetown, over 600 miles away. At full speed it would have taken the Empress at least 24 hours to get there; yet the British Government declared her in port nine hours after the incident. The Government charged that the Nazis had pulled a war of nerves hoax, possibly to trick the Empress into giving her true position; the Nazis charged the British with lying about her safety...
Harvard gasped, and Joseph Lyford strode into the Crimson office with blood in his eye. He quickly established that the Crimson itself had pulled a hoax: it had faked its picture by posing someone else at the bookshelves and tacking on the body a photograph of Lyford's head...
Next day the Crimson, ignoring Joseph Lyford's threat to sue it for libel, made no mention of its hoax but reported that book-turning had broken out anew, this time in the Adams House library. Harvard was still baffled by its most mysterious pranking in many a year...