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Hollywood Television Theatre. "Awake and Sing." Clifford Odets's drama about the Bronx during the depression, with Walter Matthau and Felicia Farr. 8, March 6, Chan...
...while the Howard Hughes manuscript case was still unfolding, a two-week-old company named Flame Enterprises began distributing two timely T shirts. One shows the great recluse, in scarf and goggles, at the controls of a plane called Helga (for Helga R. Hughes, the name used by Author Clifford Irving's wife in opening a Swiss bank account). The other is simply a portrait of the mustachioed billionaire signed "H.R. Hughs." Were the T-shirt journalists guilty of a typo in the misspelling of Hughes' name? Purely intentional, said Manhattan Photographer Bill Stettner, who founded Flame Enterprises...
...several weeks, Howard Hughes himself had been curiously receding from the affair, while the Clifford Irvings & Co. dominated the scene. Last week the billionaire re-entered the bizarre drama. In an operation only slightly less complicated than the Berlin airlift, he moved his entire headquarters from Paradise Island in the Bahamas to Managua, Nicaragua...
...speak. Writers write." Then he has a bright idea. "Hyde, why don't we do a phony press conference by phone? I've been with high-priced public relations men all week. I know how it works. You call up seven newspapers and tell them you are Clifford Irving. They will be here with everything in 15 minutes and plug into the Chelsea switchboard. Then you read poetry to them. And even if they have voiceprints to show that you aren't really me, the voiceprints will match because they will be so eager...
WELL before Clifford Irving's conspiracy began to crumble, he made a tantalizing observation to his former attorney, Martin Ackerman. "You know, I was more of an editor than a writer on this project," he said. At the time, that remark seemed a possible reference to the editing of taped interviews with Hughes, but the damning truth now shows through in a comparison of Irving's manuscript with one prepared for former Hughes Aide Noah Dietrich by Reporter James Phelan. Irving brought considerable editorial ingenuity to reworking parts of the Phelan story in order to avoid outright duplication...