Books
June, 1972
A couple of big publishing houses still have red faces over the Clifford Irving--Howard Hughes imbroglio--but one is smiling. That is Fawcett, which has just rushed into print a paperback edition of Howard, from the manuscript of which Irving apparently lifted certain anecdotes that lent the aura of credibility to his own creation. But even without that publicity bonus, this biography by 83-year-old Noah Dietrich--for 32 years chief executive of the Hughes empire--and his collaborator, journalis...
