Following up on my previous blog "Pearls Before Breakfast' about Joshua Bell performing incognito. Journalist Gene Weingarten got a Pulitzer Prize for this experimental article that featured in the Washington Post. And do you want to know what happened that night when Gene Weingarten reached home after receiving the Pulitzer Prize at New York?
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In the now-defunct "Junior Statesman" magazine, published from Calcutta, India, a journalist called C.Y. Gopinath used to do these tricks back in the 1970s. Gopi would drop "dead" in the middle of Bombay's busy Victoria Terminus to see how the famously nonchalant people reacted. He would dress up a Sheikh to see how pimps would deal with him when he tried to "buy" a girl. And so on. If you add in George Plimpton along the way, it is pretty apparent that Mr Weingerten isn't even second on the list but the Pulitzer is a first for such collegial tricks! As my old professor would say, "Don't sweat, darling. All the best things have been done a long time before."
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