Word: hoaxing
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Looking pale and drawn, Artist Edith Irving, 39, was paroled last week from a Swiss jail. She had served 14 months of a 24-month sentence, which was slightly less than the sentence imposed by a U.S. court on Husband Clifford Irving for masterminding the Howard Hughes hoax that put them both in the pokey. Edith was met by Emil Stengelé, a wealthy Zurich art-gallery owner who has bought the many paintings she made in prison for exhibition later this month. Her time behind bars revealed Edith's tough side: she disarmed an inmate who was attacking...
...high school students that he was reconsidering his noncommittal stance on the Democratic nomination for the presidency in 1976. As word of the U.P.I, "exclusive" spread, Kennedy and his office staff were besieged by reporters asking what was up. The answer was simple: U.P.I, had been victimized by a hoax. Some suspect that it was the work of a striking employee or sympathizer wishing to prove that the fill-in reporters do not know what they are doing. If that was the point, it was well made. Houseman did not notice that the bogus release was typed rather than mimeographed...
...York Psychiatrist Charles Socarides, who circulated the petition demanding the referendum, calls the ruling "the medical hoax of the century." Says Socarides: "It is flying in the face of the one fact we know, which is that male and female are programmed to mate with the opposite sex, and this is the story of 2½ billion years of evolution and any society that hopes to survive...
...film's authenticity, but have not been able to flatly discount it. John R. Napier, then director of the primate biology program at the Smithsonian Institution, examined the film some 30 times and wrote Patterson in May 1968, "There was nothing I could see that could conclusively indicate a hoax." In his 1973 book, Bigfoot: The Yeti and Sasquatch in Myth and Reality, Napier explained his having told Argosy magazine not to dismiss the film. "In effect," he wrote, "what I meant was that I could not see the zipper; and I still...
...parole in Manhattan last week after serving nearly 18 months for the Great Howard Hughes Hoax, an apparently reformed Clifford Irving said he might write a book about the need for prison reform. "Prison is a farce and a disaster," he declared sententiously. "If you are treated as an untrustworthy person, you become one." He added that "I felt my decision-making abilities had become affected." Then he hurried off to meet Sons Nedsky, 5, and Barney, 4, who were being flown from London to live with him in the U.S. Acknowledging that his wife Edith may divorce him when...