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...Irving's manuscript. One friend of Irving's com pared McCulloch to "Ahab, going after the white whale, holding on, holding on, like it's his last great moment." Mc-Culloch's latest findings went to Associate Editor Lance Morrow, who has chronicled the Hughes saga from our cover story of Jan. 24 through this week's article. It would be unfair to poach on Morrow's terrain by telling more here. After all, the tale, as Morrow says, "is a detective yarn that has everything...
Justin's saga is, in short, the American dream with an English accent. "I come from a very poor family," he says. "I've had a hard background. But I always knew that I would do something." What else is left to do? At this point, his dream, which is only half in jest, is purely English. Would you believe Dame Twiggy...
Fallen Short. Over the years, novelists and moviemakers have fictionalized the Hughes saga, but apparently their fantasies have always fallen short of the facts. Various people have besieged him with requests that he write his story or help them tell it. By his account, Clifford Irving is the man who gained Hughes' confidence and won the prize...
...EUROPEAN DISCOVERY OF AMERICA: THE NORTHERN VOYAGES, by Samuel Eliot Morison. The 1,000-year saga of those ancient mariners who did not fall off the edge of the world...
...ostrichized." That one actually appeared in the World section of April 8, 1966. Last week Associate Editor Spencer Davidson was faced with the news that Italian shops have been giving their customers candy instead of small change. Instantly Davidson saw the punny possibilities. He turned out a saga called-what else?-"The Italian Confection." The scenario involves an economics professor named Mel Marzi (played by Henry Fondant) who comes to Rome for an International Monetary Fund meeting. En route, Marzi stops at a tobacco shop. "I'm a gumdrop in here to get some coins for the Trevi fountain...