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What brought him forth was a controversy that had been building since the announcement on Dec. 7 that McGraw-Hill would publish The Autobiography of Howard Hughes, and LIFE would print excerpts from it. In one of the oddest consultations since those of the Cumaean sibyl, Hughes (or a man purporting to be him) spoke from Paradise Island for 2 hours with reporters arrayed before a telephone amplifier in a California hotel. The disembodied voice denied any knowledge of the book or its author. Later Hughes' agents sought an injunction to prevent its publication...
...until 30 days after the final manuscript had been received and approved. But word seeped out that Robert Eaton, a sometime Hollywood novelist and sixth husband of Lana Turner, was about to publish a book on Hughes. In a handwritten, nine-page letter dated Nov. 17, 1971, Hughes told McGraw-Hill Book Co. President Harold McGraw Jr. that he had nothing to do with Eaton's project and that it was now all right to announce Irving's book. A version of Eaton's work on Hughes is being published by the Ladies' Home Journal this week...
...appropriating the tapes at the end of each session and providing Irving with transcriptions later. But since the copies were poor, Irving pleaded to be allowed to transcribe the tapes himself. Hughes agreed, on condition that the tapes never leave the guarded room where they were working. According to McGraw-Hill's Vice President for General Books Albert Leventhal: "Irving was never without a guard, and they took all his materials away when he finished typing...
Strictly Secret. At another session, the two men came to what Irving calls a "tentative but full agreement" that the project would culminate in an autobiography, to be published by McGraw-Hill, that would take the form of a book-length interview...
Nearly a year ago, Irving informed McGraw-Hill of his contract with Hughes. In late March, two contracts were signed-one between McGraw-Hill and Irving, the other between Irving and Hughes. Hughes insisted that the entire project be kept strictly secret.* Last spring McGraw-Hill approached LIFE Managing Editor Ralph Graves, who signed a contract for an option on the first magazine and newspaper serial rights...