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...Mexico, has already appeared before the grand jury. Stanley Meyer has been called. Among the many questioned by federal agents are Mike Hamilburg and his wife Hannah, Los Angeles Times Book Critic Robert Kirsch and Las Vegas Newspaper Publisher Hank Greenspun. A subpoena also went out to Robert Edwin Holdorf, a sometime Las Vegas resident who has been thrice convicted for forgery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME : The Fabulous Hoax of Clifford Irving | 2/21/1972 | See Source »

...belonged to the U.S., the second be longed to everyone. By the time it was over, 41 nations had divided up the costume jewelry. The U.S. did fine in sailing (two silver, three bronze) -but the 15 yachting medals were split eight different ways. Germany's balding Willi Holdorf, the oldest-looking 24-year-old in Tokyo, won the decathlon. New Zealand's incomparable Peter Snell, already the 800-meter champion, scored another awesome victory in the 1,500-meter run for what he termed "a nice double." Australia's Betty Cuthbert, who won three events...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Olympics: A Kind of Special Immortality | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

Germany's Willie Holdorf pulled a major upset in the Olympics yesterday, beating Nationalist China's C.K. Yang to win the decathlon gold medal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: German Wins Decathlon; C.K. Yang Takes Fifth | 10/21/1964 | See Source »

Yang, silver medalist behind Rafer Johnson in 1960, was considered a certain winner in the two-day event. But Holdorf took the lead in the first event, and held on through both days of competition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: German Wins Decathlon; C.K. Yang Takes Fifth | 10/21/1964 | See Source »

...finished up by running the 1500 meters, last of the ten events, in 4:34.3. That gave Holdorf 7887 points and left Russia's fast-closing Rein Aum in second with 7842. Hans-Joachim Walde of Germany won the bronze medal with 7809 points and Paul Herman of the U.S. was fourth with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: German Wins Decathlon; C.K. Yang Takes Fifth | 10/21/1964 | See Source »

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