Word: mcgraw
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...After months of embroidered tabulations-tales of secret tapings in Mexico, an "autobiography" poured forth at mysterious rendezvous in hotel rooms and parked cars-Irving stood in U.S. District Court in Manhattan's Foley Square last week and confessed in a subdued voice: "I conspired to convince the McGraw-Hill Book Company that I was in communication with Howard Hughes, and in fact...
...months away, Irving will have time to arrange settlement of his own complicated finances. He is virtually certain to try to sell a new book, this time recounting how he put together the false autobiography, and use part of the proceeds to pay back the money he extracted from McGraw-Hill. One rumor had it that a New York agency called Creative Management Associates, which represents Irving, has bought the rights to the planned book for $380,000-and is supposedly asking $1,000,000 for the film rights. Of Irving's $380,000, $200,000 would purportedly...
...most persistently intriguing puzzles was who had penned the expert Hughes forgeries that persuaded McGraw-Hill and some handwriting authorities that the autobiography was legitimate. The government answer: Irving himself. The indictments claim that Irving modeled his forgeries on magazine photographs showing lines from a handwritten Hughes letter. During a recent long session with federal authorities, Irving astonished the prosecutors by dashing off a near-perfect specimen of Hughes' handwriting...
...present. The chargees against the three defendants-including grand larceny, conspiracy, perjury and mail fraud-could theoretically result in sentences of more than 100 years in prison for each defendant. But if the three plead guilty this week and can return the $750,000 they extracted from McGraw-Hill, there is a chance that Irving may receive a light sentence and serve as little as six months, with Edith getting a suspended sentence in return for cooperation with authorities and Suskind being sent up for a short stretch in a state prison...
...FEMALE EUNUCH by Germaine Greer. 349 pages. McGraw-Hill...