Word: merrett
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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...Talent for Forgery. Like many a romantic swashbuckler of fiction, Ches began his life in gentler circumstances-as a brilliant, somewhat slack-jawed mother's boy named John Donald Merrett. His doting mother, whose less doting husband had skipped out of the family circle, sent him to a fine public school, and went herself to Scotland to tend his needs when he entered Edinburgh University. Each night in the privacy of their quarters, Donald practiced the talent that led to his first serious trouble-forging his mother's name. He soon became expert enough to drain her meager...