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This is the gulf of credibility that Michael Drosnin faced when he began work on Citizen Hughes, part biography and part expose, based on thousands of pages of memorandums in Hughes' handwriting. There were added problems: the documents were stolen property, and Drosnin had a source to protect--the burglar who broke into Hughes' Los Angeles office building and took the papers in 1974. Drosnin, a former reporter for the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal, insists that he never paid a penny for the notes, which were later validated by the two handwriting experts used by the Hughes...
...effort to turn off the sidewalk; instead, he appeared to gun his engine as his car hit the crowd. He was grinning manically as he stepped, uninjured, from his car and turned himself over to the authorities. Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates told TIME that Young, a convicted burglar on probation, wanted "revenge against the police." He has been charged with murder...
...only one week in the summer did I have to live in the house alone. And there was no way I was going to stay there alone, even with a burglar alarm, because the thought of returning alone to a dark, empty, three-story house, aggravated my anxiety attacks from spending the summer in Cambridge. So I recruited a friend to stay with me, and the two of us religiously put on the burglar alarm, every night before going...
...days later at 2 a.m., the burglar alarms went off. I plowed into Maggie's room, and noticed a huge white van parked outside the house. Having heard enough stories about suburban robberies, I immediately called my friends the police...
...then that I started counting the days until I could move out. When the family finally returned, I was packed and ready to go to my grandmother's. I told them about the burglar alarm fiasco, and they chuckled when I told them to fire their housekeeper. The toddler immediately recognized me and wanted to go outside and swing, but the now eight-month-old baby had changed so much that I didn't recognize her and she didn't recognize me. When I tried to hold her, she screamed and grabbed for her mother. Some thanks, I thought...