Word: impostors
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There was only a minute or two before the start and Segal (alias Reider) had just time to prance through a warm-up in front of the dumbfounded opposition. Jose Iglesias, the Columbia captain and a fine runner in his own right, eyed the impostor suspiciously. He had run against Reider before ... didn't remember him quite this way ... but then ... well, one's memory is not infallible...
...club selection in his spare time while working at the old family foundry (Bissell himself had worked at the old family pajama factory). When a couple of brash young producers summon him to New York and ask him to turn the book into a play, he feels like an impostor. But with the help of a shrewd director who strongly resembles George Abbott. Jack Jordan attains the rube's satisfaction of seeing the city slickers lined up all around the block trying to get ducats for his play. Show biz is about as comprehensible to him as a Variety...
...gave up. In 1955, he became a Dr. Benjamin Jones (who really was president of Northeast Mississippi Junior College), got himself a job as lieutenant of the guard in Texas' Huntsville Penitentiary. There, a prisoner recognized Ferdinand as the subject of a 1952 LIFE article on "The Master Impostor," but the agile fraud made a quick getaway...
...Goodbye. Typically, last week most of his friends in Maine were ready to defend Ferdinand, even if he was an impostor. Found guilty by a superior court judge, Ferdinand got a suspended sentence and a gentle lecture. "On each occasion," the judge admitted, "deliberately or otherwise, you were doing some good." Said Schoolteacher Hopkins: "I hope Demara can come back. After all, what has he done but use someone else's name? And all the good he has done must certainly outweigh the bad." Ferdinand himself was not so sure. "Under the circumstances," he remarked blandly, "it would...
...whisk of the author's wand puts plain John ill at ease in the count's clothes and drawing room, half wanting and half dreading to be discovered as an impostor. The simplest acts are tense puzzlers, like finding his way to bed and then finding out who is in it. Acting the count, John soon realizes that the real count was fleeing a pack of emotional creditors whose hearts he had bankrupted. The count's mother is a morphine addict. His sister is a pious recluse who has not spoken to him for 15 years...