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...Charleston, S.C., Motley joined the Air Force and was posted from 1965 to 1967 in Panama-his only Central American experience-and later in Alaska. There he switched careers and founded what has since become the largest real estate firm in the state. He was, recalls Anchorage Attorney Clifford Groh, "affable, very enjoyable," but also a "take-charge sort...
...Over the long run, gentrification and development is sapping the political base of the Independent councilors," says Clifford Truesdell, secretary of the city committee. "But as...the last election shows, the condo vote may help them in the short term...
...Hitler keep a diary? (The very thought's unnerving.) Could Stern be making fools of us? (And where is Clifford Irving...
...forger, Clifford Irving was something else: audacious and foolhardy enough to concoct the "autobiography" of a living person who could readily refute it, point by point, if he wished to do so. When Irving convinced McGraw-Hill in 1971 that Howard Hughes had asked him to help him write his autobiography, the New York City-born freelance writer was clearly counting on the reclusive Hughes to remain silent. Carrying out his elaborate hoax, Irving forged letters from Hughes to himself that persuaded McGraw-Hill to give Irving a $750,000 contract to produce a 230,000-word manuscript. Irving even...
...lover, Eva Braun, have been found in a secret compartment of her secret handbag." Joshed the New York Times in a gently doubting editorial: "We would not be a bit surprised to pass a bookstand one day soon and see something entitled Not the Hitler Diaries, perhaps written by Clifford Irving...