Word: hoaxing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grocer Bartholdy, said F.G.P.S., had been carefully coached and combed, then sent to Berlin "to die on the barri cades. ... He will act as Hitler's trump card, creating a hero legend around the Führer 's death, while Hitler himself goes underground." To fasten the hoax on posterity, Reichsbildberichterstatter (Photo graphic Reporter for the Reich) Heinrich Hoffmann would "be on hand to film Hitler's last moment on the battlefield."* -Whose 82nd birthday was celebrated this week at a San Simeon party attended by sons and satellites (Louella Parsons...
...hoax or an optical illusion, it was certainly the most puzzling secret weapon that Allied fighters have yet encountered. Last week U.S. night fighter pilots based in France told a strange story of balls of fire which for more than a month have been following their planes at night over Germany.* No one seemed to know what, if anything, the fireballs were supposed to accomplish. Pilots, guessing that it was a new psychological weapon, named it the "foo-fighter...
...month ago, advertising trade papers carried news of the death of "Byron Keating, 59, after a heart attack attributed to overwork." Actually, Byron Keating was killed by his own parents-the two Cincinnati copywriters from whose lively imaginations he had sprung to hoax the advertising world...
...tycoon in their own business out of thin air. They spent $4 on letterheads, sent publicity releases to newspapers and magazines, invented companies and clubs for Keating to address. When the American Newspaper Publishers Association and Dun & Bradstreet Inc. requested financial statements, Authors Hill and Eckels decided the hoax had gone far enough...
...witch legend is a matter for hooting and disbelief in adjoining Little Waltham. Little Walthamites in road crews assure me they have moved the stone a score of times in as many years. . . . It is my reluctant conclusion that the witch of Scrapfaggot Green is-to be blunt-a hoax...