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THEORY I: TOTAL HOAX. Clifford Irving invented the entire autobiography. To do so, however, Irving would have to be a near genius of a writer. He would also have had to forge a body of documents, among them the Hughes letter to Irving acknowledging receipt of his book Fake!; four handwritten letters, including the nine-page letter to the McGraw-Hill president; and checks-made out to Hughes for $700,000 as payment for the book, endorsed by Hughes and cleared through a Zurich banking house called Credit Suisse. Irving would also have had to forge Hughes' handwriting...
...considerable length with airplane design and performance. There are glints of characteristic Hughes wit. He scoffed at Richard Nixon's Checkers speech, for example: "I always thought he must have had an onion hidden in his handkerchief." Such details would have been extremely difficult for Irving to fake. Indeed, the Hughes camp seemed ready to base its case less on the authenticity of the book than on whether or not it was authorized...
...this new park has the status of a real-life city in the state of Florida. Soon it will have its own government and pay taxes like a city (although a totally non-functional one.) One can imagine a series of non-functional cities appearing across the nation, offering fake hotels, fake schools, with robots in attendance. Even worse, one can imagine Andy Warhol constructing his version of Disneyland in the East Village...
...thing to do. Hughes has dictated his autobiography-from his Houston childhood through his careening career as moviemaker, airline owner, speed-record breaker, electronic tycoon, husband, and archrecluse. To help him tell his story, Hughes has appropriately chosen a fiction writer, Clifford Irving, author of several novels and Fake, the biography of the Hungarian forger of modern art, Elmyr de Hory. LIFE will print three 10,000 word installments of the book beginning in early March, and McGraw-Hill will publish the 230,000 word volume a few weeks later. Characteristically, the taping sessions for the book were shrouded...
...that time the 50 shares were worth a total of $300,000, but they paid only about what the stock had been worth in 1962. In an effort to disguise the bargain, Mrs. Everett signed a "letter of intent" to sell the stock that carried a fake date...