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...claimed that his wife is "independently wealthy," with $100,000 in stocks, plus additional capital yielding $10,000 a year. On occasion in recent weeks he has bristled at the suggestion that he might be looking for quick money, pointing to his $150,000 four-book contract with McGraw-Hill, signed in 1969, and claiming that film producers have had under option the rights to four of his seven books...
...pressures on Irving began to build. Swiss police asked him to come to Zurich, pointedly requesting that he be sure to bring Edith along. The Swiss authorities were acting at the instigation of McGraw-Hill, which had originally planned to publish the Hughes book in March. Much of the information the police worked with had been gathered by LIFE, which was to excerpt the autobiography in three issues this month.* They also had an interest all their own, since Helga had employed a forged Swiss passport in opening the Zurich account. On the other side of the Atlantic, there...
...Helga Hughes" did indeed endorse two of the three checks in the presence of a bank officer, then the holographic evidence on which McGraw-Hill and LIFE have been basing their case for authenticity might be called into question. The reason: endorsements on the last two checks were part of a chain of handwriting evidence. The New York experts, Osborn Associates, had concluded that those two checks were endorsed by the same hand that wrote nine letters and other documents to Irving and McGraw-Hill during the book project. In turn, all of those recent samples, Osborn found, matched samples...
...fraudulently obtained, the book could well be real. All his life Hughes has been a compulsive dictator of memos on nearly every aspect of his activities. Millions of words by Hughes exist on paper, a reservoir that could be tapped by a disgruntled associate to fill a book. McGraw-Hill and LIFE said in their statement: "We continue to believe that the material we have contains the authentic language and views of Howard Hughes...
...With McGraw-Hill and LIFE at least temporarily suspending their plans to publish, the New York State Supreme Court took no further action on a motion by Hughes' lawyers to enjoin publication. Before the matter became moot, however, Irving filed with the court a minutely detailed affidavit describing the numerous meetings during which Hughes supposedly recited his extraordinarily confessional autobiography. If Irving is lying, he has obviously left himself open to comprehensive perjury charges, for his account is remarkably explicit. He and Hughes first met by prearrangement, says Irving, in Oaxaca, Mexico, on Feb. 13. By Irving...