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...cape, pulling pennies out of a boy's mouth and making keys disappear. Next he jumps to his editing room, where he's making movie magic--cutting and splicing a documentary about another sleight-of-hand expert. Hungarian art forger Elmyr deHory. But also about deHory's biographer. Clifford Irving, a hoaxster in his own right. Have it straight so far? F for Fake is thus a cinematic illusion (movie), directed by a renowned beguiler (Welles), about a world-famous flimflammer (Irving) who at the time the film was shot just happened to be assembling a life story...
Washington is eagerly?and anxiously?waiting for the arrival of Jimmy Carter. "This is going to be the most interesting presidency I have ever witnessed," says Clark Clifford, 70, the Washington lawyer who has been a confidant of Presidents since Harry Truman's day. Clifford claims to see the definite possibility of greatness in Carter because he is unquestionably brainy, determined and dedicated. Another Washington figure professes he is not dismayed by the Georgian's uncertain transition. "I will give President Carter the benefit of every doubt until we see the performance," says President Gerald Ford...
...small "Picasso" that he had executed. With the aid of a skillful fence, he turned his mimicry of Matisse, Modigliani and others into millions of dollars until his cover was blown in 1967. The dapper De Hory was the subject of Fake!, a 1969 biography by his friend Clifford Irving−no mean hoaxer himself−and a movie by Orson Welles. In recent years he sold his own works for large sums, but the authorities still pursued him for past fakeries. Last week he was told that he would be extradited to France to stand trial for his part...
Washington law partner of Clark Clifford, venerable Democratic powerbroker . . . Age 56 . . . Yale ('41), Columbia Law, Dean Acheson's law firm . . . Joined McNamara's Pentagon in 1966, became Assistant Secretary for International Security . . . Had "misgivings about Viet Nam" from the start, considered quitting after Tet '68 but decided to work within to halt bombings, open negotiations . . . Was "very firmly aligned" with George McGovern's defense policies in 1972 ... Calls for reduced arms sales abroad, tighter controls on nuclear proliferation . . . After hearing Warnke's plan for deeply cutting defense spending, Carter told him that he sounded...
...Clifford C. Lamberg Karlovsky...