Word: manuscript
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Oddly enough, it was the earlier Osborn certification of Hughes' handwriting that had kept Phelan from suspecting that his manuscript might be the source of Irving's fraud. "Up until about ten days ago," he recalled last week, "I still thought the Irving manuscript was authentic." What triggered Phelan's realization and brought him to TIME'S McCulloch was the leaked story about a Hughes aide who talked with Howard from Hedda Hopper's closet. It was Irving's story -straight from Phelan's work...
...most intriguing figure in the case becomes not Hughes but Clifford Michael Irving. Why did he do it? Why did he think he could get away with it? What hubris made Irving imagine that he could bluff his way to more than a half million dollars by stealing a manuscript, challenging the entire Hughes empire, and dealing in recklessly prolific forgeries? Some of the answers may lie in Irving's career as a nomadic, minor league novelist of a post-Hemingway generation...
...After TIME obtained the Phelan manuscript, LIFE announced last week that it was canceling its plans to publish excerpts of the Irving book. McGraw-Hill, keeping its own counsel, still held out some apparent hope for the Irving version. It announced simply that Phelan had supplied "additional information7' on the book's possible origins...
...Martin Ackerman. "You know, I was more of an editor than a writer on this project," he said. At the time, that remark seemed a possible reference to the editing of taped interviews with Hughes, but the damning truth now shows through in a comparison of Irving's manuscript with one prepared for former Hughes Aide Noah Dietrich by Reporter James Phelan. Irving brought considerable editorial ingenuity to reworking parts of the Phelan story in order to avoid outright duplication of language. He embellished incidents, arbitrarily changed statistics, had Hughes sometimes doing precisely the same things that the Phelan...
Told from the personal perspective of Noah Dietrich, one anecdote in the James Phelan manuscript reads, in part...