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"You’re Not Howard Hughes!"

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

CHAPTER

Howard Hughes - A Disembodied Voice on a Speaker Phone

Clifford irving, a former friend of howard hughes's, decided to try and prove that the voice on the phone was not his own. If only he could keep some doubt alive, he might force hughes to sue him - but maybe they wouldn't go through with it. Mc graw hill continued to insist that their book was genuine and they'd publish it as planned. The boss held a press conference despiteHughes' denial: ' mc graw hill has in its possession a tremenous amount of documentation which indicates beyond the shadow of a doubt that we have the authorization to publish it' But Hughes went public about two weeks later; ‘I

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