Word: swindler
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...tolerates W. C. George, a retired medical professor who recently earned a $3,000 fee from Alabama with a study "proving"' the biological inferiority of Negroes. It is rightly proud of such alumni as President James K. Polk (1818), and wryly proud of such graduates as the late swindler Gaston B. Means ('22), described by Historian Archibald Henderson as "the most able, ingenious and imaginative criminal...
...obvious Renoir forgeries to his door, knowing that he would obligingly "correct"-that is. repaint-the canvases and give them back. The painter saw through the racket, or always claimed later that he did, but it was easier for him to paint a Renoir than become indignant at a swindler. The only irritants that instantly roused him to anger were those of modernity: traffic noise, foul air, the displacement of craftsmanship by machine production...
...shell on the Bon Ami trademark has assured U.S. housewives that the famed old cleanser "hasn't scratched yet." But the Bon Ami chick, if not yet scratching, is not unscratched. Five years ago, the Manhattan-based Bon Ami Co. was looted of $3,000,000 by Swindler Alexander Guterma (TIME. Feb. 23, 1959). As Guterma was packed off to jail, a reform management team, headed by dapper airline and hotel operator R. (for nothing) Paul Weesner, 51, moved in to put Bon Ami back on its feet. Last week, in New York State Supreme Court, a mounting stack...
...Matter of WHO. Britain's Terry-Thomas plays a dewlapped bloodhound from the World Health Organization who goes bugling after a migratory virus and turns up the trail of a swindler...
...Matter of WHO. Britain's Terry-Thomas plays a dewlapped bloodhound from the World Health Organization who goes bugling after a migratory virus and turns up the trail of a swindler...