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...April 22 dramatically announced the astounding discovery of 62 volumes of Adolf Hitler's alleged long-secret diaries. Bound in black imitation-leather covers, the magazine-size books purported to chronicle the Nazi Führer's years from 1932 to 1945. Hailed by Stern as "the journalistic scoop of the post-World War II period," the diaries were offered to other publications for serialization at up to $3 million. Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., the parent company of London's Sunday Times, agreed to pay $400,000 for British and Commonwealth rights. Paris Match and Italy's Panorama, both weeklies...
...EDITORS of the German newsmagazine Stern thought they had the journalistic scoop of the century. But the diaries of Adolf Hitler "discovered" by the magazine turned out to be the hoax of the century--blatant forgeries. After Stern reluctantly handed over several of the 64 volumes to the West German government for study, it took specialists in Bonn only a few days to discover that materials contained in the paper and bindings hadn't even existed in 1945, the last year Hitler allegedly wrote in the diaries. Upon further analysis, it became clear that large segments of the journals...
Stern Editor Koch, who flew to the U.S. to defend the Hitler diaries' authenticity, waved aside all objections to what he called "the journalistic scoop of the post-World War II period." But he admitted that his magazine had relied for verification almost entirely on the assertions of Reporter Gerd Heidemann, 51, a 31-year veteran of Stern who claims he uncovered the diaries after a four-year search through East and West Germany, Spain and South America...
...impossible and denied the opportunity for proof, academics and most of the press rightly balked. Trevor-Roper summed up, more in sorrow than in anger: "As a historian, I regret that the normal process of historical verification has been subordinated, perhaps necessarily, to the requirements of a journalistic scoop...
...their envelopes this week, none received so much publicity as a certain former Ivory Soap baby. Brooke Shields has had one of the best-documented adolescences of the century, and her odyssey through the treacherous land of college admissions has been no exception. Last spring, People Magazine schemed to scoop her SAT scores. And this fall, as the coyly sized up the Ivy League, no passing reaction from Brooke or her indefatigable mother Teri escaped the headlines. Her decision that Princeton was the university probably boosted that select institution's popularity rating enough to counteract the loss of an entire...