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...once a robber makes his move, cooperate fully and never resist. Do not carry a gun. Says Robert McKinney, an ex-forger who runs Project JOVE: "If there is not enough money in the till, write the guy a check." That conjures up the wry possibility of the grocer, pen poised, inquiring, "And whom shall I make...
Others in the tight Ibiza circle-a raffish collection reminiscent of Humphrey Bogart's Beat the Devil-added color to the story. There was Elmyr de Hory, the slightly flamboyant art forger who is the principal figure in Irvine's book Fake! Another good friend is Gerry Albertini, an idle millionaire with dual British-American citizenship who, apparently as a favor, once kept Irving's Hughes manuscript in his safe on the island...
Impromptu press conferences on Ibiza turned into parties, with Edith serving drinks and snacks. One evening, reports TIME'S Roger Beardwood, the group was joined by Elmyr de Hory, the master Hungarian art forger about whom Irving wrote his best-known book, Fake! Something of a personage on Ibiza (he sports an English shooting jacket and a monocle), De Hory confided that it was "possible but not probable" that anyone could have forged a nine-page letter from Howard Hughes. "He would have to be a genius," De Hory whispered. "And Cliff, dear boy, is no genius at anything...
...dictated his autobiography-from his Houston childhood through his careening career as moviemaker, airline owner, speed-record breaker, electronic tycoon, husband, and archrecluse. To help him tell his story, Hughes has appropriately chosen a fiction writer, Clifford Irving, author of several novels and Fake, the biography of the Hungarian forger of modern art, Elmyr de Hory. LIFE will print three 10,000 word installments of the book beginning in early March, and McGraw-Hill will publish the 230,000 word volume a few weeks later. Characteristically, the taping sessions for the book were shrouded in such Hughesian secrecy that...
...fortresses, 61 of them built before 1900. Now stripped of most rights, he often arrives in chains and becomes a number. His head sheared, he is led to a bare cage dominated by a toilet. In many states his cellmate may represent any kind of human misbehavior?a docile forger, a vicious killer, an aggressive homosexual...