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...indictments, the New York and federal grand juries agreed on the essentials: Irving and Suskind concocted the Hughes "autobiography" 1) through extensive research into material already published about the billionaire, 2) from a pilfered manuscript written by Journalist James Phelan for an old Hughes associate, Noah Dietrich (TIME, Feb. 21), and 3) from their own imaginations. In doing their research, Irving and Suskind visited newspaper and magazine libraries in Las Vegas, Houston, New York and other cities, including that of LIFE, which had a contract to publish excerpts from the manuscript. Thus steeped in Hughesian lore, Suskind and Irving took...
PHELAN. Hughes' rumpled style of dress was well known. Says Dietrich: "The widely publicized stories about his slouching around in tennis shoes were true, but not for the reasons cited. The best-known story was that he took to sneakers during the war when he ran out of shoe rationing stamps. Actually, for a considerable period of time he had an infection like athlete's foot that he couldn't shake...
...IRVING. Dietrich's version is recounted in much the same...
...Phelan version of Hughes' experience with steam-powered automobiles when he owned two of them in 1926 quotes Dietrich...
Told from the personal perspective of Noah Dietrich, one anecdote in the James Phelan manuscript reads, in part...