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...screen out obscene ones written by what she calls "crankpots." The editors profess a hands-off policy with her copy and insist that it goes out to her followers just as she writes it. Angel ponders three letters for each column, takes an hour to write answers in longhand, then laboriously types them. She works in her bedroom on the second floor of her family's row house, shooing away three younger siblings as deadlines approach and the pressure mounts. Her quick success has made Angel consider giving up her ambition to be a kindergarten teacher in favor...
Catch-22. Irving had built a Catch-22 into his arrangements with the publishers: they could not meet Hughes, he said, because Hughes might bolt if there were the slightest publicity. Meantime, Irving produced nine documents purportedly from Hughes, including a nine-page letter in longhand to McGraw-Hill. Eventually McGraw-Hill hired a respected New York firm of handwriting analysts, Osborn Associates, to check the Hughes handwriting against samples of his writing dating back to 1936. Said Osborn: "The evidence that all of the writing submitted was done by the one individual is, in our opinion, irresistible, unanswerable...
...investigate where the funds went, and insists that Hughes will pay no taxes on money he never received. In the New York court last week, Davis brought forth another disavowal of the entire project from Hughes. It was in the form of two pages of typewritten questions with longhand answers allegedly written by Hughes. Said one query: "Did you at any time authorize McGraw-Hill or Clifford Irving or anyone other than Rosemont [a publishing company set up by Hughes] to publish your autobiography or any material relating to you?" The scrawled reply: "No. I would like to see these...
...fingerprints and signature were recorded after his car struck and killed a pedestrian (the charges were dropped). The present handwriting is also said to match Hughes' signatures on a 1938 pilot's log and a Government security clearance issued during World War II. In addition, it matches the longhand in a letter, written in 1970, directing that Robert Maheu be fired as head of the Hughes properties in Nevada. Says Paul A. Osborn of Osborn Associates: "The evidence that all of the writing submitted was done by one individual is, in our opinion, irresistible, unanswerable and overwhelming...
...been locked back into his one-man cell for the night and prison noises subside, does he start writing. Because there is no lights-out rule, he sometimes works as late as 3:30 a.m. Each novel takes him about four months. The first two drafts are in longhand. He types the final version before mailing it off to the publisher...