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...revealed as forgeries, and all the affidavits of supposed meetings with Hughes had helped Irving create an atmosphere of verisimilitude. But the essence of its apparent validity-and the key to the big con job-had been the words in the manuscript itself. Several experienced editors and publishers at McGraw-Hill and LIFE magazine had read Irving's work and found it convincing in its tone and above all its remarkable wealth of detail about Hughes' complex life. It seemed beyond mere inventive compilation, even given all that has been printed over the years about Hughes...
...year. Phelan completed the manuscript in April at just about the time Irving allegedly began having his first serious interviews with Howard Hughes. It is possible that Irving had already conceived a Hughes project when the Phelan manuscript fell into his hands. He had begun discussing the project with McGraw-Hill in January 1971, when Phelan was midway in his work...
When Irving first approached McGraw-Hill, which had published three of his books, he said that he had received three letters from Howard Hughes expressing tentative interest in having Irving write his authorized biography, living's editors were intrigued and told him to proceed with the project...
Then began Irving's intricately orchestrated moves, drawn out over the next ten months, to make the project seem authentic. McGraw-Hill editors received calls from various points -Mexico, Puerto Rico, Miami and other cities-where Irving reported his progress with Hughes. Irving said that he first met Hughes at 7 a.m. on Feb. 13 on a mountaintop in Oaxaca, Mexico. He reported that he had signed a letter of agreement with Hughes in San Juan on March 4. He brought the forged document to New York, and on March 23 signed with McGraw-Hill a contract providing...
...money question has been substantially solved. Irving admits that his wife Edith, posing as a woman named Helga R. Hughes, opened an account at the Swiss Credit Bank in Zurich, deposited the McGraw-Hill checks made out to H.R. Hughes and then withdrew the money and salted it away in several other Zurich banks. Irving claims that he made the arrangements at Hughes' request. Last week, however, a few more details of those transactions came to light...