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Then, too, Irving may be hoping that out of the Hughes affair he will get an even better story than the billionaire's "confessions" he tried to peddle. Speaking of that book on the whole affair, says his friend, Jim Sherwood, "he told me, 'Jim, it's going to be a marvelous book!' And he ticks off the chapters as they happen each day." On another occasion, Irving told his former lawyer, Martin Ackerman, that "someone up there"-pointing skyward-was following him and filming his life...
Time: Friday evening. Place: the apartment of Writer Jim Sherwood and his German wife Valdi, friends of Clifford and Edith Irving, in Manhattan's Chelsea Hotel. Cast: the Irvings, the Sherwoods, and others in the Irving entourage, including Hyde Part-now, a self-described "Russian Jewish poet from Montparnasse and Ibiza," and Lester Waldman, a nomadic photographer expelled from Ibiza by the Spanish police. Also present: TIME Correspondent Bill Marmon...
...Then Sherwood appears on the tube, defending Irving, "my good friend." Partnow has somehow got into the television act and reads his poem "To a Seagull," dedicated to Irving...
Waldman wants to take pictures of Cliff and Edith, which he knows he can sell. "Oh, let him go ahead," says Edith. She poses behind Cliff, puts her long blonde hair down over his face, snuggles him. Finally the Irvings go back to their own apartment in the hotel. Sherwood: "He is a poet and writer, and I don't care what the facts are. Cliff is telling the truth." Valdi agrees emphatically. Lester and Hyde are not so sure...
...Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson wrote of "grotesques," people who took a single truth to themselves, called it theirs and tried to live by it. "It was the truths that made the people grotesques," Anderson said. Once embraced so singlemindedly, any truth "became a falsehood...