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"You’re Not Howard Hughes!"

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

CHAPTER

Howard Hughes and Edith Suskind

publishers agree to howard's fee, 500 thousand dollars, and to his demands for secrecy. He wants to deal ony with irving mc graw hill, draw up a contract and give it to irving for him to get hughes to sign. This time, he flies to puerto rico and comes back with the story about driving with hughes into the tropical rain forest. Irving says he takes the checue home to abetha and gives it to edith. She packs her bag for zurich with her helga, hughes, wig and lipstick. The money is deposited without a problem. Relieved and triumphant, edith heads home to ebetha

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