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Allen waited a couple of days, and then he organized a press conference to announce that he was alive.
On January 4th, the New York Times ran another article, Obituary Disclosed as Hoax.
It was the first time in the newspaper's history that it had to retract an obituary.
Alan and Jean Abel were married for almost 60 years.
What do you think was the key to your long marriage?
Their daughter Jenny says her parents were always talking to each other about ideas and writing them down.
She remembers that one prank involved throwing real money out the window of a fancy hotel suite.
Sometime around 2001, Alan was recording an interview with a TV show that wanted to talk about his pranks over the years.
Jenny and Jeff have been together for about 24 years.
They have a son who Jenny says reminds her of her father.
It ran with the headline, Alan Abel, hoaxer extraordinaire, is, parentheses, on good authority, dead at 94.
Quote, he was, the news media conceded with a kind of irritated admiration, an American original.
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