10 AUGUST 1991, page 19

The Great Sham

Christopher Howse unearths the life of an extraordinary impostor and eccentric GEORGE PSALMANAZAR was one of the most remarkable of all impostors, and his true story can never......

If Symptoms

persist.. . EARLY one Sunday morning some years ago, I stood waiting at a bus stop on a nearly deserted Manhattan street. The only other person at the bus stop was a middle-aged......