Word: spiros
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...quite sure how long it was after the second Franklin hoax that Spiro decided to move on to bigger things, even though he had not graduated from Tulane. But in the fall of 1968 he showed up at Harvard Law School, where he spent the next two and a half years. If the swagger and braggadocio were showing then, no one recalls it--in general, he didn't leave enough of a mark for professors to recognize him when he came back as Jason Cord...
George H. Lanier '66 of the King and Spaulding law firm in Louisiana, is proud to have been the first to trip Spiro up. Besides the now-famous lies about turning down the Law Review and writing a thesis on Einstein, Lanier says Pavlovich made other, equally outrageous claims. Spiro said he was the great grand-nephew of Czar Nicholas of Russia, the nephew of a man who "owned most of lower Louisiana," and the godson of Leander Perez, a notoriously powerful and corrupt Plaquemines parish politician. Lanier began to get suspicious, but it was Spiro's statement that...
Pavlovich left Harvard with very little fanfare. "We got the impression that he was in psychologically unstable state of mind," Detlev Vagts '49, professor of Law, who had taught Pavlovich, says, and another source remembers Harvard administrators confiding that Spiro was in an institution and that the case would not be pursued...
...Spiro bounced back quickly. That fall he enrolled at the University of New Orleans (formerly Louisiana State University at New Orleans) as a transfer student from Tulane, with an allegedly false transcript. Equipped with a new name, Jason Scott Cord, he completed a very successful stint at UNO. And then it was off to Cambridge again for Round II--this time with Uncle Sam guaranteeing repayment of Harvard's loans...
...around, beginning in the fall of 1973, Pavlovich was more at ease here. "Jason knew that a lot of what went on the Law School was bullshit. He knew exactly what you had to do to get through," recalls Charles Simpson, a second year law student who served as Spiro's partner in the Law School's 1974-75 Ames competition. Having gone through the Ames once before, Spiro didn't worry much, and the pair got by without great effort. George Munoz, a member of Pavlovich's small study group, remembers telling Spiro he had "better...