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...series of 30 letters and cards to his parents during the years 1920 to 1928 brought $65,000. The Bible he carried as an ambulance driver in World War I fetched $4,500. One dealer even paid $2,750 for two pages of nine-year-old Ernest's scrawl describing how a clam in his school aquarium caught a goldfish by the tail...
...Jean Peters and Ella Rice, Boy Scouts, orphans and a gas-station attendant in Nevada, to name a few. Ten handwriting experts have attested to its authenticity, but it is being energetically contested by lawyers for Summa, who contend that the handwriting is a poor facsimile of Hughes' scrawl. They are believed to feel that the Mormon will, even though it could reduce Summa's tax liability under federal law, would also dilute Summa's control of the empire...
...17th century Dutch to Constable to German expressionists. He was, Keating blithely admitted, "a terrible faker. Anyone who sees my work and thinks it genuine, must be around the bend." Moreover, Keating said, he did not mean his phonies to pass close tests: before setting to work he would scrawl "fake," "Keating" or a suitable rude word on the blank canvas, in lead-based paint, which would show up under X rays. Nevertheless, many of the works ended up in leading galleries and auction rooms, where, endowed with signatures and solid pedigrees, they were sold for even more solid prices...
...Large Scrawl. The circumstances surrounding the will's discovery were mysterious. As a public relations executive of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) was sorting through the mail on his desk one afternoon, he came upon a tattered yellow envelope. The envelope, bearing a partly illegible Las Vegas postmark, was addressed to Spencer W. Kimball, president of the Mormon church. Inside the first envelope was a smaller one that bore instructions written in a large scrawl. They ordered Kimball to deliver the enclosed will to legal authorities in Clark County, Nev., "after my death...
Edmund Blunden, a poet, elaborates a Syndrome theme when he recalls the endlessness of war in that attack on the Somme. "By the end of the day," he writes, "both sides had seen, in a sad scrawl of broken earth and murdered men, the answer to the question. No road. No thoroughfare. Neither race had won, nor could win, the War. The war had won, and would go on winning." And after carefully building up evidence for the recurrence of this theme since that time, Fussell quotes this headline from The New York Times: "U.S. Aides in Vietnam/See an Unending...