![]() ![]() To put it succinctly, he had been somewhat framed. ![]() He was not at all reluctant to speak about his troubles with the law. Von Daniken is a smooth, likable, restless, somewhat stocky Swiss, who is not quite in total command of the English language, but who does not let that sap his confidence in it. We did meet the fallowing Sunday in von Daniken's spacious suite in the Park Lane with a splendid view of Central Park. ![]() I was rapidly coming to the conclusion that the terse reference to the writer's personal life, rather than his book had been ill‐advised. Believing as I do in rehabilitation and knowing that great books are frequently written by men I would not want to marry my daughter, I was already having second thoughts. von Daniken's background, a matter of fraud and forgery, all public knowledge. The description referred to a peccadillo in Mr. Erich had been hurt by it, she told me perhaps I would meet him when he was in town. A few months ago I received a call from the publicity woman at Bantam Books about a one‐line descriptive phrase that had appeared with the listing of Erich von Daniken's “Chariots of the Gods?” on the Paperback Best Seller List. ![]()
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