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...unhappy marriage, and divorce seemed the only way out for Clifford and Edith Irving, mastermind and accomplice respectively of the phony Howard Hughes biography caper. But when they emerged from prison after being separated for nearly two years, they were understandably reluctant to get involved in yet another legal process. Last month Clifford, 44, returned to Ibiza, the Mediterranean island where he used to live, to spend Christmas with his wife and their two sons, Nedsky, 6, and Barney, 4. Irving was due back in Manhattan last week, where he is still trying to sell his phony Hughes book...
Even if the caper had succeeded, it might have been for naught. The gang apparently assumed that the prince could pay a princely ransom. Though D'Angerio is a descendant of the Anjou kings of France, he is not rich and is only the manager of a small textile factory. "Quite honestly," he sighed, "I don't know how my family could have scraped together a decent ransom...
...rare Greek and Roman coins, valued at about $2 million, were heisted last December 2, in an ingenious caper that would make great material for a television script writer...
...also wishes everyone and everything would go away; he especially wants his chief aide to clam up. But the aide insists on telling his honor about the most absurd caper ever to hit Manhattan Island. Four men with automatic weapons have hijacked a subway car. They are holding it, 17 passengers and a conductor for $1 million ransom. The city has exactly one hour to get up the cash. For every minute past their deadline, the hijackers promise to shoot one of the hostages...
Does anyone in fact really care any more? Brad Darrach surely does, and so will the readers of his fast, funny account of the Great Airport Caper and other misadventures of the Brooklyn bad boy. Darrach, who became Fischer's confidant while covering his matches for LIFE, offers many new and intriguing facts about the "Chess Match of the Century." At one point in the hectic go, no-go negotiations, Darrach reports that despite diplomatic requests from such noted peacemakers as Henry Kissinger ("In short," Kissinger said later, "I told Fischer to get his butt over to Iceland"), Bobby...