MAKING UP MIKE
He fought in the British army in World War I, led a Russian Cossack regiment, and served in the French Foreign Legion. Or so he said.
He also said he was born in New York. And that he was born in Russia. That he studied at Harvard. And at Oxford. Oh, and Heidelberg, where he’d killed a German nobleman in a duel, causing him to spend World War I behind bars. He also claimed the Bolsheviks jailed him after the Russian Revolution. But not before he helped murder the mad monk Rasputin.
He said his name was Harry Ferguson. He also said it was Willoughby de
