There is an apocryphal story about how Henry Ford liked to interview over lunch as well.

FORBES: You Are Judged by Your Appearance

Five years ago it was an apocryphal story but I'm afraid today it's a parable.

BBC: NEWS | UK | UK Politics | David Davis speech in full

Since it sprouted from the ground in 1995--everyone knows the apocryphal story of founder Pierre Omidyar and his girlfriend's Pez dispensers (see p. 50)--the company has hidden behind a sort of cyberscreen.

FORBES: D-Day for Ebay

When Brazil became independent from Portugal in 1822, British merchants, delighted to discover a big new market, flooded Brazil with manufactures, including, according to one possibly apocryphal story, ice-skates an early example of emerging-market fever.

ECONOMIST: Getting it together at last

One (perhaps apocryphal) story has it that in 1992, when the army was suppressing pro-democracy demonstrations, activists got the soldiers to stop shooting by singing the anthem.

ECONOMIST: Thais are impatient for change, but it will take time

The story is apocryphal -- one of hundreds of false rumors and instant urban legends that have circled the globe in urgent e-mails since September 11.

CNN: AP photo

My sense is this story is apocryphal.

FORBES: Brookies Under Broadway

The story is apocryphal.

BBC: 10 questions on grammar

Consider that this other story recently went viral throughout the Chinese blogosphere: an (as far as I can tell, apocryphal) account of the teaching of the Cinderella fairy tale in a Chinese first-grade classroom.

FORBES: China's Achilles Heel: Education System