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...intense young poet in Prague in the early twenties. Gustav Janouch's father worked with Kafka at the Insurance Association and asked him to advise the son on his poetry. The resulting introduction, in March of 1920, led to several years of close friendship and to the manuscript which became the Conversations. The jottings which Janouch assembled were first published in 1951 with the aid of Kafka's life-long friend and biographer Max Brod, but because of a typist's error important portions of the manuscript were omitted and appear for the first time in the new edition...
...circumstances of Howard Hughes' own life, the truth of the matter was about to emerge. In a reverse jigsaw-puzzle effect, the outlines of the truth began to take form as Author Clifford Irving's account of how he had assembled the Hughes manuscript began to crumble...
Flimflam Man. Irving held firm on the rest of his story: how he had gathered the 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...
...swift succession of events produced fresh rounds of speculation about how and where the Hughes manuscript had originated. Assuming that Irving was telling the truth about the rest of his story, one theory still held that Howard Hughes had indeed met with the writer and poured forth his autobiography; then Hughes' associates persuaded him that he would have to disown the book or risk damaging financial and legal consequences. In this theory, Irving could be telling the truth about arranging the Swiss account at Hughes' request...
...reclusive billionaire's supposed autobiography arced between Manhattan and a Swiss banking house on Zurich's Paradeplatz. For the moment, the puzzlements were sufficient to persuade McGraw-Hill and LIFE to announce that they were "holding in abeyance action on the publication of the Howard Hughes manuscript"-which had been scheduled to be excerpted in LIFE'S Feb. 11, 18 and 25 issues and to appear in book form on March...