Word: mcgraw
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...claimed that his wife is "independently wealthy," with $100,000 in stocks, plus additional capital yielding $10,000 a year. On occasion in recent weeks he has bristled at the suggestion that he might be looking for quick money, pointing to his $150,000 four-book contract with McGraw-Hill, signed in 1969, and claiming that film producers have had under option the rights to four of his seven books...
...three weeks later, the woman appeared at the bank to deposit the first of the three checks-this one for $50,000. In a bank officer's presence, she endorsed the check "H.R. Hughes." In early fall, the woman appeared again, this time to deposit the $275,000 McGraw-Hill check made out to H.R. Hughes. Again she endorsed the check in the presence of a bank officer. The third check, for $325,000, arrived by mail, already endorsed, early last December...
...Helga Hughes" did indeed endorse two of the three checks in the presence of a bank officer, then the holographic evidence on which McGraw-Hill and LIFE have been basing their case for authenticity might be called into question. The reason: endorsements on the last two checks were part of a chain of handwriting evidence. The New York experts, Osborn Associates, had concluded that those two checks were endorsed by the same hand that wrote nine letters and other documents to Irving and McGraw-Hill during the book project. In turn, all of those recent samples, Osborn found, matched samples...
...fraudulently obtained, the book could well be real. All his life Hughes has been a compulsive dictator of memos on nearly every aspect of his activities. Millions of words by Hughes exist on paper, a reservoir that could be tapped by a disgruntled associate to fill a book. McGraw-Hill and LIFE said in their statement: "We continue to believe that the material we have contains the authentic language and views of Howard Hughes...
...With McGraw-Hill and LIFE at least temporarily suspending their plans to publish, the New York State Supreme Court took no further action on a motion by Hughes' lawyers to enjoin publication. Before the matter became moot, however, Irving filed with the court a minutely detailed affidavit describing the numerous meetings during which Hughes supposedly recited his extraordinarily confessional autobiography. If Irving is lying, he has obviously left himself open to comprehensive perjury charges, for his account is remarkably explicit. He and Hughes first met by prearrangement, says Irving, in Oaxaca, Mexico, on Feb. 13. By Irving...