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...look more or less human. Unanswered still was the question of who had planted the fake. Dawson, who died in 1916 and whose monument stands near the Piltdown gravel pit, may have doctored the jawbone to make himself famous. More likely, the difficult hoax was perpetrated by an erudite joker who enjoyed in silent satisfaction his success in fooling the experts...
...professor said he doesn't believe for a moment that Charles Dawson, the attorney and amateur antiquarian who discovered the skull, is the perpetrator of the hoax. "I'm only guessing." he said, "but I think the joker was one of the technicians in the British Museum who had an ambition to fool the experts...
Even the works of the usually inimitable Updike have ceased to shine, and only glimmer fitfully through the morose aura which surrounds the magazine. This is probably the result of understandable fatigue, since this joker has been responsible for the bulk of the magazine's readable contents over a period of nearly two years...
Sense of Humor. In New York City, headed for a European tour, Mrs. Virginia Roth, 25, woke up in a Manhattan hotel to find missing 1) her husband Marvin, 2) all her extra clothes, 3) $3,700 in cash, later explained to police: "He's quite a practical joker...
...course, there was a joker. MacDonald made it plain that English teams would not be coming here, if the Americans would not reciprocate, in both 1954 and 1955. As it later turned out, the English were counting on the proceeds from both those meets to pay off the loans made to enable this year's trip...