Word: impostors
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...lacquered surface, Shadows in Paradise shows all the familiar Remarque gloss. There is the typically commercial title, second only to Heaven Has No Favorites. There is the often wordy dialogue- pretentiously sophisticated, as if spoken by an impostor duke. There is the slightly too chic setting: in this case, places like El Morocco, the fashion-and-art sa lons of New York and the swimming pools of Hollywood...
...manuscript in more than 100 hours of clandestine meetings with the real Hughes in hideaways in the Bahamas, Puerto Rico, Florida, Mexico and California. Yet the edges were fraying. At one point, during the nighttime interview, he replied to a question: "Yes, I could have been dealing with an impostor [for Hughes]. It might have been a flimflam man." Then he veered back: the man he had met for all those hours could only have been Hughes. Finally, exhausted and suffering from a case of laryngitis that reduced his normal baritone to a whisper, Irving ended the interview with...
...conspiracy to collect on a totally phony Hughes "autobiography," or to peddle his authentic autobiography, fraudulently obtained? If so, was Irving part of the conspiracy? Or was he taken in by the conspirators? As Irving succinctly puts it, there are only three possibilities: 1) he is an impostor; 2) he is the victim of an impostor, and 3) whoever opened the Swiss account was a trusted Hughes agent acting on Hughes' behalf to collect the money secretly for him-the so-called "faithful servant" theory. But why would Hughes design such an elaborate system in order to cash three...
...then in our Washington bureau. Hughes insisted that when he called, Elson was to identify himself by saying: "Hello, Mr. Howard Hughes. How was the weather?" Trouble was, Elson forgot the code question. This necessitated a new round of calls before Hughes was convinced that Elson was not an impostor. In 1948, when we did a cover story on Hughes, he did utter one prophetic statement about his future: "I'll make news...
Died. "Prince" Mike Romanoff, eightyish, Hollywood's reigning restaurateur-raconteur for more than two decades; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. That no one knew Romanoff's precise age is a fitting footnote to the life of a legendary impostor who at various times passed himself off as Rasputin's assassin, the son of Victorian Prime Minister William Gladstone and a cousin of Czar Nicholas II. Actually, there is evidence that he was born Harry F. Gerguson, the son of Russian immigrants. After trying his hand at farming, peddling papers and bumming, the flamboyant phony with...