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...peddle. Speaking of that book on the whole affair, says his friend, Jim Sherwood, "he told me, 'Jim, it's going to be a marvelous book!' And he ticks off the chapters as they happen each day." On another occasion, Irving told his former lawyer, Martin Ackerman, that "someone up there"-pointing skyward-was following him and filming his life...
...Meier told reporters: "I never met Clifford Irving or his wife, and had not heard of either of them before I read about the 'Autobiography of Howard Hughes' in the newspapers." Yet when he faced the grand jury. Meier pleaded the Fifth Amendment. In addition, Mrs. Martin Ackerman, the wife of Irving's former attorney, is said to have identified Meier as the key figure in the mystery, possibly the Hughes "intermediary" Irving called "George Gordon Holmes...
Irving chose the U.S. rather than Switzerland, flying to New York in midweek with Edith and their two children. After a private session in Hogan's office, Irving and his attorney, Martin Ackerman, were holding a late-night post-mortem in Ackerman's town house when TIME'S Frank McCulloch and John Goldman of the Los Angeles Times angled their way in. Until then, Irving had never varied in pitch or detail his account of the entire Hughes caper, as he traced and retraced his steps under intense questioning. This time he cracked...
...news that Helga was actually Edith exploded like a bombshell. Its concussion immediately threw all of Irving's past assertions into a new perspective and, at the least, severely damaged his credibility. Ackerman immediately withdrew from the Hughes case. "I think he needs a criminal lawyer in a situation like this," Ackerman said. McGraw-Hill and LIFE both indicated they would hold off publication of the Hughes material indefinitely...
...Cambridge City Councilwoman Barbara S. Ackerman who contacted Cronin on Sunday and advised him to sit down and bargain with HSWOC. Members of HSWOC hope that both she and a prominent member of the National Organization of Woman (NOW), which has been serving the group in an advisory capacity, will become permanent board members of the new union...