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...Clifford Irving Most-Interviewed Award: To Charles Percy for answering the same question ("Are you a candidate in '76?") 4,000 times...
Crowds? On Ibiza, the neighbors of Hughes-Hoax Author Clifford Irving can blame him for making the island a household name; it has become so crowded that some travelers sleep in cars or on the roadsides. On the Greek island of Ios, police no longer allow the young knapsack-setters who arrive by the boatload every summer to camp on the beaches. Reason: there were so many kids and so few sanitary facilities that officials feared an outbreak of disease...
What began as a grand and intricate caper, a hoax of hoaxes hatched on a Spanish island, ended last week in two Manhattan courtrooms. Author Clifford Irving, his wife Edith and Researcher Richard Suskind were sentenced to jail terms for fabricating an autobiography of Howard Hughes and selling it to the McGraw-Hill Book Co. for $750,000. In a federal court, Irving was given 30 months, Edith two months, with Edith going to jail first so that their two children will not be deprived of both parents at one time. Suskind, who helped with the research on the bogus...
...Clifford Buck, chairman...
Nonetheless, The Descent of Woman has already achieved a distinction of sorts: it has replaced another largely fictional work-Clifford Irving's discredited biography of Howard Hughes -as the Book-of-the-Month Club's June selection...