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Joan Crawford, mother of four adopted children (here with Christine) was once the victim of a cruel adoption hoax.
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Flowers were tossed into Hedy Lamarr's car during a war bond tour — bits of. glass were hidden in one bouquet.
Spreading vicious rumors . . . writing threatening letters . . . even making cowardly personal attacks . . . the hoaxers work relentlessly as they seek to make the stars their victims.
BY CARL SCHROEDER
■ Hedy Lamarr had never had such a day in her life. She was on a war bond tour, and the people in New Jersey had welcomed her like a queen. If ever she appreciated her adopted land it was now as an official car in which she rode pushed slowly through the mob of workers at a war factory, just outside of Trenton, New Jersey.
As the lane of human bodies opened ahead, the car inched its way toward the speaker's platform that had been erected in the factory yard.
"Roll your window down, Hedy," someone shouted.
Automatically, she obeyed the suggestion. Someone tossed in a bouquet of flowers. She smiled and waved. She saw a dark, swarthy man, standing with another huge bouquet of roses. He grinned at her and threw his tribute. It struck Hedy squarely in the face. She winced in pain and in an instant a trickle of blood streamed from a cut near her forehead. With a cry, she covered her face and the man beside her indignantly examined the flowers — red roses in which were tightly wrapped bits of glass and stones.
Moments later, tears in her eyes, she took the microphone before the thousands who had welcomed her. She told what had happened, and an angry murmur swept over the vast audience.
Hedy Lamarr broke a bond selling record that day — the day her career might have been seriously harmed. She wasn't badly hurt physically. But inwardly, she was agonized by the . cruel, unexpected event — and she will never again face a huge audience without considerable protection.
What was this thing that happened?
The dictionary describes it as a "hoax — a deception {Continued on page 57)
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