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After spending 17½ months in jail for trying to pass off a fraudulent autobiography of Howard Hughes as the genuine article, Author Clifford Irving, 44, is now having trouble balancing other books as well. Citing overwhelming financial obligations, Irving last week filed suit for bankruptcy in New York. His total assets, he says, are a $35 typewriter, a $50 tape recorder, a $75 camera and a $100 Mercury convertible named Barbara. Liabilities: $2,900 in hotel bills, $140,000 owed to the Internal Revenue Service, $235,000 in overdue legal fees, a $344,899 debt to McGraw-Hill...
...Edith said it best: It's more important to have a good divorce than a good marriage because it lasts longer," reflected Author Clifford Irving. Even so, Irving, 44, and his wife, 39, seem to have settled for just an estrangement. Since serving 17% months in jail for masterminding the Great Howard Hughes Hoax of 1972, Irving has been living in East Hampton, Long Island, where he is "plugging away on a novel." Edith has retreated to the Spanish island of Ibiza. Although she painted in prison, Edith abandoned her craft for almost a year after her release...
...pouring in as if conjured up by some sorcerer's apprentice, even though it is scarcely conceivable that the shippers would not have got Kissinger's orders by now. "I expect things to keep coming out of the woodwork for the next 45 to 60 days," sighs Clifford Frink, 54, senior AID man in Hong Kong...
...biblical scholar as well as a Latin American specialist; he could describe quasars or the ways of night-flying squirrels with precision and clarity. Such books as Flight Into Space and Crusades of Chemistry made Leonard one of the nation's most respected science writers. ∙ Died. Clifford Durr, 76, Federal Communications commissioner and civil liberties lawyer; of a heart attack; in Wetumpka, Ala. On the FCC from 1941 to 1948, Durr lobbied for "public interest" channels, helping to make possible today's PBS-TV network. Later, in his native Alabama, Durr defended Mrs. Rosa Parks, a seamstress...
...CLARK CLIFFORD, 68, Lyndon Johnson's Secretary of Defense, a Washington attorney: "It is the best result as far as the people of South Viet Nam are concerned. The fall of Saigon means a civil war has ended. What I hope it means in the U.S. is intelligent analysis-no recriminations, but a national debate. Asking basic questions like 'How did we get into this?' would imbed Viet Nam in our consciousness so we might never make this kind of mistake again...