Word: nina
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...place on this week's cover. The man who chipped away at the writer's secrets was Frank McCulloch, New York Bureau chief. Previously, McCulloch had been the first to learn (along with one other reporter) that Edith Irving was "Helga Hughes. " The next discovery was that Nina van Pallandt would de bunk part of Irving's story. Last week it was McCulloch alone who uncovered the sources for the core of Irving's manuscript. One friend of Irving's com pared McCulloch to "Ahab, going after the white whale, holding on, holding on, like...
...chivalry or more self-serving motives. It was possible, some investigators said, that Irving hoped to ease Edith's legal burdens before she broke down and told her own side of the story, partly in anger over her husband's now famous affair with Danish Singer Nina van Pallandt...
...First Nina. In his later life, women and romantic fantasy have been a consistent theme. At the start, says an associate, "he sees them all like women in a Hollywood movie-beautiful, unharried, desirable. So he wants them. He gets them-boy, how he gets them. But once he has them, he gets bored very quickly. All the dreary little details of living together, raising kids, that drives Cliff right up the wall. So he creates a new fantasy, looks for a new woman and starts all over again...
...March of his senior year, Irving married a beautiful coed named Nina Wilcox. Cliff was, Nina recalls, "an impassioned guy, discovering art and books." Together, says a classmate, they were "the golden couple." Nina introduced him to politics, and through her influence, he joined Students for Peace, an anti-Korean War group. The marriage broke up-he wanted to travel, she wanted to finish college-and was annulled in 1953. Even today Nina, who is married to TV Producer Marc Merson, weeps when she sees her beleaguered first husband on television. But, she says with some disillusionment, "In the beginning...
...Nina's appearance in the case gave it some new aspects of glamorous international soap opera. When she returned from vacation to London last week, Nina told reporters: "He loves me. He has asked me to marry him, and I am sure that is why he thought I would stand...