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...says that his last meetings with Hughes took place in an American city late last fall. Hughes' physical condition had been deteriorating steadily over the months, Irving said. At those meetings, Hughes lay in bed, wheezing heavily and frequently waving Irving out of the room. Had Hughes read the manuscript? The weak reply: "As much as I could." That was the morning of Dec. 7, the day that McGraw-Hill announced the book in New York. Hughes signed the typed, finished version of a preface to the book. When Irving sought another meeting four days later, Hughes' intermediary...
...interview Hughes face-to-face-in 1958-believes that it was Hughes on the telephone. Their conversation was off the record, at Hughes' insistence, but McCulloch said that Hughes denied any knowledge of the book or of Irving. Three weeks later, with McGraw-Hill and LIFE insisting on the manuscript's authenticity, Hughes' public relations counselor, Richard Hannah, arranged an extraordinary "press conference" in a Los Angeles hotel. Seven newspaper, wire-service and television reporters, all selected because they had once known Hughes, sat confronting microphones, cameras and a small telephone-amplifying box, which broadcast what was said...
...creature with waist-length beard and eight-inch fingernails. Said Hughes: "Why, hell, how could I write my name if I had fingernails?" Each reporter had prepared test questions to establish Hughes' identity, and Hughes was often vague and uncertain in his answers. Hughes was adamant, however, about the manuscript. "This must go down in history," he said. "I don't remember any script...
...addition to their holographic evidence, McGraw-Hill and LIFE also base their case for authenticity on the internal character of their manuscript, which is offhand, conversational, outspoken, frequently salty. It deals intricately and at considerable length with airplane design and performance. There are glints of characteristic Hughes wit. He scoffed at Richard Nixon's Checkers speech, for example: "I always thought he must have had an onion hidden in his handkerchief." Such details would have been extremely difficult for Irving to fake. Indeed, the Hughes camp seemed ready to base its case less on the authenticity of the book than...
...Howard Hughes but a talented impersonator in the service of Hughes' enemies, who had their own business reasons for inspiring an "autobiography." Hughes is known to keep extensive records of his conversations -all his personal aides are trained court reporters. Is it possible that the basic manuscript was among a truckload of documents that were removed from the Las Vegas office of Robert Maheu at the time Hughes fired him and slipped away to the Bahamas...