The 12 students, who record their hopes and fears on video diaries with expert candor, are attractive and endearing.
While Smythson's pigskin party register is the default diary for the jewelry expert Janet Mavec, Scully & Scully also has a nice version, and Graphic Image's "Entertaining" is one of the only ones that includes table shapes other than oval for recording seating plans.
The editors showed examples from the diaries to handwriting experts in New York and Bern — but the comparisons they provided were drawn from Heidemann's archive and had also been forged by Kujau.
There are 20 pages of a diary, which at least one expert has deemed a forgery.
Mr. Messner calls the story false and the diary a fake, but an expert recently authenticated the text by comparing the handwriting with that in another document written by Mr. von Kienlin in 1970.
The life-space diary was developed by an expert group for the current project.
"There is a soupçon of sarcasm (pointed, daggerish t-bars)": a handwriting expert analyzes Marilyn Monroe's diary entries.
Data will be collected from the baseline and follow-up physical assessments, monthly falls diaries, telephone contacts and medical and expert reports.
It was the sheer volume of the diaries that fooled the experts.
They were said to have been discovered in 2004 in Mexico City, but experts have dismissed the trove of diary extracts and paintings as fakes.
