In 1954, Hughes transferred Hughes Aircraft to the foundation, which paid Hughes Tool Co. $18,000,000 for the assets. No Such Thing as Bad Publicity. He also proposed to Joan Fontaine several times, according to her autobiography No Bed of Roses. It is similar to Barth's The End of the Road. ", "Watergate: 'Aviator' Connection?, Lesley Stahl Talks To Watergate Investigator About Motive For Break-In. Hughes had a "phobia about germs", and "his passion for secrecy became a mania."[20]:58–62,182–183. ", "Jean Peters; Actress in Film, TV Married Howard Hughes", "Records of the Watergate Special Prosecution Force. Paramount Pictures acquired the rights of the film in 1979, 3 years after his death. The so-called "Mormon Will" gave $1.56 billion to various charitable organizations (including $625 million to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute), nearly $470 million to the upper management in Hughes' companies and to his aides, $156 million to first cousin William Lummis, and $156 million split equally between his two ex-wives Ella Rice and Jean Peters. [49] X-rays revealed five broken-off hypodermic needles in the flesh of his arms. [75][76][77][78] The indictment, made by U.S. Attorney DeVoe Heaton, accused the group of conspiring to drive down the stock price of Air West in order to pressure company directors to sell to Hughes. (Before and after the August 16, 1977 events, everybody was talking about Elvis and drugs. Hughes spent a total of $300 million on his many properties in Las Vegas. ", "Millionaire Flyer and Society Girl testify at Inquest. He called in plant engineers to design a customized bed, equipped with hot and cold running water, built in six sections, and operated by 30 electric motors, with push-button adjustments. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. In 1952, an abortive sale to a Chicago-based group connected to the mafia with no experience in the industry disrupted studio operations at RKO even further. After Hughes hurt himself in the late 1920s, his golfing tapered off, and after his F-11 crash, Hughes was unable to play at all.[20]:56–57,73,196. Jean Harlow accompanied him to the premiere of Hell's Angels, but Noah Dietrich wrote many years later that the relationship was strictly professional, as Hughes apparently disliked Harlow personally. [26] While Hughes had previously been relatively obscure despite his wealth, being better known for dating Katharine Hepburn, New York City now gave him a ticker-tape parade in the Canyon of Heroes. When eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes died 45 years ago this week, he set off a frenzied scramble for control of his estate. After Hughes left the Desert Inn, hotel employees discovered that his drapes had not been opened during the time he lived there and had rotted through.[128]. [citation needed] In addition to the Desert Inn, Hughes would eventually own the Sands, Frontier, Silver Slipper, Castaways and Landmark and Harold's Club in Reno. However, he abandoned this plan around 1958, and in the interim, negotiated new contracts for 707 and Convair 880 aircraft and engines totaling $400 million. In 1958, Hughes told his aides that he wanted to screen some movies at a film studio near his home. [22] According to Noah Dietrich, Hughes made a $10,000,000 profit from the sale of the theaters and made a profit of $1,000,000 from his 7-year ownership of RKO.[20]:272–273. [35] Hughes paid divers $100,000 to raise the aircraft and later spent more than $500,000 restoring it. [129] In addition to supervising day-to-day business operations and Hughes' health, they also went to great pains to satisfy Hughes' every whim. [55][20]:198–208, On November 4, 2017, the 70th anniversary of the only flight of the H-4 Hercules was celebrated at the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum with Hughes' paternal cousin Michael Wesley Summerlin and Brian Palmer Evans, son of Hughes radio-technology pioneer Dave Evans, taking their positions in the recreation of a photo that was previously taken of Hughes, Dave Evans and Joe Petrali on board the H-4 Hercules.[56]. Operating from there, the most technologically important aircraft he commissioned was the Hughes H-1 Racer. I wouldn't recommend purchasing this book. in 1939 as a bomber with five crew members, powered by 42-cylinder Wright R-2160 Tornado engines. His image as an innovator in difficult industries like film and avionics has been popularized thanks to famous movies like “The Aviator”, directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio. This essay is adapted from Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes’s Hollywood, out now from Custom House. Meier told Donald that he was sure the Democrats would win the election because Larry O'Brien had a great deal of information on Richard Nixon's illicit dealings with Howard Hughes that had never been released;[112][113] O'Brien did not actually have any such information, but Meier wanted Nixon to think that he did. Nancy Bayly (Watts), who was in the car with Hughes at the time of the crash, corroborated this version of the story. After his death in 1976, many thought that the balance of Hughes' estate would go to the Institute, although it was ultimately divided among his cousins and other heirs, given the lack of a will to the contrary. Hughes was living in the Intercontinental Hotel near Lake Managua in Nicaragua, seeking privacy and security,[133] when a magnitude 6.5 earthquake damaged Managua in December 1972. 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They had accused him of financial misconduct and corporate mismanagement. [34], In the spring of 1943 Hughes spent nearly a month in Las Vegas, test-flying his Sikorsky S-43 amphibian aircraft, practising touch-and-go landings on Lake Mead in preparation for flying the H-4 Hercules. Howard Hughes is the archetypal super-rich hermit, said never to have trimmed his nails and to have kept urine in jars. [20]:52,126 Hell's Angels received one Academy Award nomination for Best Cinematography. With the shares down 18%, I suppose it is safe to say the market doesn’t like it. We sense this early, and eerily, in his quirky life of Howard Hughes… He is best known as the father and namesake of Howard Hughes, the famous American business tycoon. Unable to add item to List. [60][61] Hughes Tool Co. purchased the first six Stratoliners Boeing manufactured. ), then watch the film of another! For example, Hughes once became fond of Baskin-Robbins' banana nut ice cream, so his aides sought to secure a bulk shipment for him, only to discover that Baskin-Robbins had discontinued the flavor. The Constellations were among the highest-performing commercial aircraft of the late 1940s and 1950s and allowed TWA to pioneer nonstop transcontinental service. Later in life, he became known for his eccentric behavior and reclusive lifestyle—oddities that were caused in part by his worsening obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), chronic pain from a near-fatal plane crash, and increasing deafness. Dummar later claimed that days after Hughes' death a "mysterious man" appeared at his gas station, leaving an envelope containing the will on his desk. He was reported to be terminally ill, mentally unstable, or even dead. Riding high on the wave of previous astonishing successes, Reece sees Hughes as more than simply a name worth the seven-figure advance he's demanding from his publisher. [10] His father patented (1909) the two-cone roller bit, which allowed rotary drilling for petroleum in previously inaccessible places. [49] In one year, Hughes spent an estimated $11 million at the hotel. He stands aside and lets the story run. 25. Howard Sr.'s will had not been updated since Allene's death, and Hughes inherited 75% of the family fortune. [19] Hughes played golf every afternoon at LA courses including the Lakeside Golf Club, Wilshire Country Club, or the Bel-Air Country Club. His average ground-speed over the flight was 322 mph (518 km/h). A graduate of the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi, Steven Carter currently teaches at Georgetown College in Kentucky. Hughes enjoyed a highly successful business career beyond engineering, aviation, and filmmaking; many of his career endeavors involved varying entrepreneurial roles. Also treated Pershing. I disagreed. Hughes' uncle was the famed novelist, screenwriter, and film-director Rupert Hughes.[11]. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Howard Hughes, the son of Howard Robard Hughes, was born in Houston on 24th December, 1905. [49], Hughes is buried next to his parents at Glenwood Cemetery in Houston.[142]. [8], Records locate the birthplace of Howard Hughes as either Humble or Houston, Texas. The film featured Jane Russell, who received considerable attention from industry censors, this time owing to her revealing costumes.[20]:152–160. [90], In 1972, during the cold war era, Hughes was approached by the CIA through his longtime partner, David Charnay, to help secretly recover the Soviet submarine K-129, which had sunk near Hawaii four years earlier. Antitrust Case. [94] Although he lent his name and his company's resources to the operation, Hughes and his companies had no operational involvement in the project. Inherited his father's machine tool company in 1923. [69][70] Their friendship and many partnerships began with the film The Conqueror, which was first released to the public in 1956. On January 12, 1957, Hughes married actress Jean Peters at a small hotel in Tonopah, Nevada. Donald told his brother that O'Brien was in possession of damaging Hughes information that could destroy his campaign. [citation needed]. Risking more, I Was Howard Hughes pancakes more often in its so-so contrasts between Hughes's imaginative daring as mogul, inventor and movie tycoon, and … Hughes returned home ahead of photographs of his flight. In his 1971 book, Howard: The Amazing Mr. Hughes, Dietrich said that Hughes genuinely liked and respected Jane Russell, but never sought romantic involvement with her. al", "Hughes 3 Others by Judge In Air West Case", "Hughes Estate Agrees to Pay Airline's Stockholders $30 Million", "Howard Hughes' Doctor Gives a Chilling Description of His Strange Patient's Final Hours", "Houston's last tycoon. The two had not lived together for many years. "[97] Hughes renamed the yacht Southern Cross and later sold her to Swedish entrepreneur Axel Wenner-Gren.[98]. The Hughes Helicopters division started in 1947 when helicopter manufacturer Kellett sold their latest design to Hughes for production. He was included in Flying magazine's 2013 list of the 51 Heroes of Aviation, ranked at No. As a result of the hearings, the shaky status of RKO became increasingly apparent. I Was Howard Hughes is his first novel. After a brief stint at The Thacher School, Hughes attended math and aeronautical engineering courses at Caltech. The H-1 Racer is thought[by whom?] The foundation leased the land from Hughes Tool Co., which then subleased it to Hughes Aircraft Corp. He lived almost exclusively in the penthouse of the Xanadu Beach Resort & Marina for the last four years of his life. [115], Hughes was widely considered eccentric,[116] and suffered from severe obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Biographer Alton Reece is everywhere. Please try again. Hughes reportedly walked away from RKO having made $6.5 million in personal profit. Republic was subsequently acquired by and merged into Northwest Airlines which in turn was ultimately merged into Delta Air Lines in 2008. It has long been speculated[109] that Nixon's drive to learn what the Democrats were planning in 1972 was based in part on his belief that the Democrats knew about a later bribe that his friend Bebe Rebozo had received from Hughes after Nixon took office. Unsure if the will was genuine and unsure of what to do, Dummar left the will at the LDS Church office. In 1974, the Orson Welles film F for Fake included a section on the Hughes autobiography hoax, leaving a question open as to whether it was actually Hughes who took part in the teleconference (since so few people had actually heard or seen him in recent years). Since Hughes wanted to focus primarily on his aircraft manufacturing and TWA holdings during the years of the Korean War of 1950 to 1953, Hughes offered to buy out all other stockholders in order to dispense with their distractions. [20]:268, The deal was the topic of a protracted legal battle between Hughes and the Internal Revenue Service, which Hughes ultimately won. He would also notice dust, stains, or other imperfections on people's clothes and demand that they take care of them. Coffee Life Coloring Book: An Adult Coloring Book Featuring Fun and Humorous Coffee... Hell's Super: Circles In Hell, Book One (Volume 1), In Their Shoes: Books I, II & III (The Teacher, The Actor & The Model), In Their Shoes: Books IV, V & VI (The Artist, The Nurse and The Dealer), Turing Test (AI Diaries SciFi Trilogy Book 1). Most writers can't do that. The collection consists of over 200 items including 35mm and 16mm elements of feature films, documentaries, and television programs made or accumulated by Hughes.[146]. Howard Hughes embodied the American dream: envied by powerful men, desired by beautiful women, Hughes lived his life larger than all who surrounded him and yet died an emaciated recluse. A 1941 affidavit birth certificate of Hughes, signed by his aunt Annette Gano Lummis and by Estelle Boughton Sharp, states that he was born on December 24, 1905, in Harris County, Texas. In November 1944, the hangar containing the D-2A was reportedly hit by lightning and the aircraft was destroyed. "I have never seen the Rover but bought it on the blueprints, photographs and the reports of Lloyd's surveyors. He may have watched movies to distract himself from his pain—a common practice among patients with intractable pain, especially those who do not receive adequate treatment. Please try again. He first became prominent as a film producer, and then as an influential figure in the aviation industry. A friend returned from seeing “The Aviator” not very impressed with the film, but did remark that he thought Howard Hughes was a genius. As I got into the elevator, I was greeted by the smiling face of Howard Hughes. He also revealed that Hughes' unpredictable mood swings made him wonder if the film would ever be completed. In 1978, a Nevada court ruled the Mormon Will a forgery and officially declared that Hughes had died intestate (without a valid will). He placed ownership of the restaurants with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and all licenses were resold shortly after. Hughes dated many famous women, including Joan Crawford, Billie Dove, Faith Domergue, Bette Davis, Ava Gardner, Olivia de Havilland, Katharine Hepburn, Hedy Lamarr, Ginger Rogers, Janet Leigh, Rita Hayworth, Mamie Van Doren and Gene Tierney. Northeast went on to merge with Delta Air Lines in 1972.[67]. Full content visible, double tap to read brief content. Record nr. Many attribute his long-term dependence on opiates to his use of codeine as a painkiller during his convalescence. The Desert Inn ended up distributing free banana nut ice cream to casino customers for a year. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. He had English, Welsh and some French Huguenot ancestry,[9] and was a descendant of John Gano (1727–1804), the minister who allegedly baptized George Washington. In 1939, at the urging of Jack Frye, president of Transcontinental & Western Airlines, the predecessor of Trans World Airlines (TWA), Hughes began to quietly purchase a majority share of TWA stock; he took a controlling interest in the airline by 1944. After the screening room incident, Hughes moved into a bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel where he also rented rooms for his aides, his wife, and numerous girlfriends. On July 16, 1936, Hughes was held blameless by a coroner's jury at the inquest into Meyer's death. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. [106] Some later claimed that Peters was "the only woman [Hughes] ever loved",[107] and he reportedly had his security officers follow her everywhere even when they were not in a relationship. There was a problem loading your book clubs. (The Hercules is no longer the longest nor heaviest aircraft ever built - surpassed by the Antonov An-225 Mriya produced in 1985. This was especially true of the women under contract to RKO at that time. He finds in Hughes a kindred spirit of greatness, a man misunderstood and beaten down by jealous inferiors. This section is believed to have held many of the most sought-after items, including its code book and nuclear missiles. Hughes then attempted to get the military to pay for the development of the D-2. Remember when science fiction was about a future you would actually want to visit on vacation, maybe go to live? However, it was a disaster. William L. Durkin, who happened to be in the area visiting friends. As … He was soon promoted to co-pilot. Production dwindled to 9 pictures during the first year of Hughes' control; previously RKO had averaged 30 per year. ", "Editor Lee Smith Says Bruce Wayne In 'The Dark Knight Rises' Inspired By Nolan's Aborted Howard Hughes Movie"]", "Exclusive: Ken Levine on the making of Bioshock", "New L.A. Noire Screens from the "Nichsolson Electroplating" Arson Case. Howard Hughes embodied the American dream: envied by powerful men, desired by beautiful women, Hughes lived his life larger than all who surrounded him and yet died an emaciated recluse. [122][123], The wealthy and aging Hughes, accompanied by his entourage of personal aides, began moving from one hotel to another, always taking up residence in the top floor penthouse. Howard Hughes was born on Christmas Eve in 1905 into a family who ran a very successful oil tool business. For starters, the narrator is a fictional biographer, but much of what the real author wrote is largely factual. Ralph Graves persuaded Hughes to finance a short film, Swell Hogan, which Graves had written and would star in. "Hughes and Jean Peters. He wrote in a memo to an aide, "I like to think of Las Vegas in terms of a well-dressed man in a dinner jacket and a beautifully jeweled and furred female getting out of an expensive car. [21] His next two films, Everybody's Acting (1926) and Two Arabian Knights (1927), achieved financial success; the latter won the first Academy Award for Best Director of a comedy picture. Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video! Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2021, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. [79][80] The charges were dismissed after a judge had determined that the indictment had failed to allege an illegal action on the part of Hughes, Charnay, and all the other accused in the indictment. ", "Wacko, junkie—and a great businessman despite all his eccentricities, Howard Hughes left behind a $1 billion empire. In 1984, Hughes' estate paid an undisclosed amount to Terry Moore, who claimed she and Hughes had secretly married on a yacht in international waters off Mexico in 1949 and never divorced. [20]:195 The trademark mustache he wore afterward hid a scar on his upper lip resulting from the accident. [citation needed], Another portion of Hughes' commercial interests involved aviation, airlines, and the aerospace and defense industries. On November 24, 1966 (Thanksgiving Day),[126] Hughes arrived in Las Vegas by railroad car and moved into the Desert Inn. First-novelist Carter hits the scene with a madly inventive mock bio. As Reece transcribes his own interviews with earlier biographers, revelations begin to surface that betray his arrogant sense of superiority and then a Hughes-like penchant for paranoia when he is faced with setbacks. Harry Connor was the co-pilot, Thomas Thurlow the navigator, Richard Stoddart the engineer, and Ed Lund the mechanic. ", "Campaign Contributions Task Force #804 – Hughes/Rebozo Investigation. I hope it gets the audience They moved to Los Angeles, where he hoped to make a name for himself as a filmmaker. The sale of his TWA shares brought Hughes $546,549,771. Hughes also had a role in the design and financing of both the Boeing 307 Stratoliner and Lockheed L-049 Constellation. (I may buy more). ", "Sportsman Arrested After Traffic Death. [130] In a 1996 interview, ex–Howard Hughes Chief of Nevada Operations Robert Maheu said, "There is a rumor that there is still some banana nut ice cream left in the freezer. After being displayed at the harbor of Long Beach, California, the Hercules was moved to McMinnville, Oregon, where as of 2020[update] it features at the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum. I Was Howard Hughes is his first novel. The claim was largely dependent upon obtaining testimony from Hughes himself. The author deserves credit for developing an unconventional conceit that seems quite limited on the surface, turning this into an unusual, entertaining commentary on the nature of celebrity and creating a dizzying hall-of-mirrors effect with its double portrait. Mini Bio (1) Billionaire businessman, film producer, film director, and aviator, born in Humble, Texas just north of Houston. [23][20]:69–72,131–135, The H-1 Racer featured a number of design innovations: it had retractable landing gear (as Boeing Monomail had five years before), and all rivets and joints set flush into the body of the aircraft to reduce drag. In 1953, Hughes became involved with a high-profile lawsuit as part of the settlement of the United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. Hughes had made numerous business partnerships through industrialist and producer, David Charnay. Amazingly, we do not even sense the presence of Steven Carter. You'll enjoy it and promptly hand it to someone else to do the same. Yesterday, Howard Hughes released its much-anticipated review of strategic alternatives. Convair proposed two concepts to Hughes, but Hughes was unable to decide which concept to adopt, and Convair eventually abandoned its initial jet project after the mockups of the 707 and Douglas DC-8 were unveiled. This may have been because Hughes found the touch of clothing painful due to allodynia. The hotel's eighth floor became the nerve center of Hughes' empire and the ninth-floor penthouse became his personal residence. He also retained Jane Russell's contract. [50], The War Production Board (not the military) originally contracted with Henry Kaiser and Hughes to produce the gigantic HK-1 Hercules flying boat for use during World War II to transport troops and equipment across the Atlantic as an alternative to seagoing troop transport ships that were vulnerable to German U-boats. [117][118], Dietrich wrote that Hughes always ate the same thing for dinner, a New York strip steak cooked medium rare, dinner salad, and peas, but only the smaller ones, pushing the larger ones aside. Hughes' internist, Verne Mason, who treated Hughes after his 1946 aircraft crash, was chairman of the Institute's medical advisory committee. The difference in rent, $2,000,000 per year, became the foundation's working capital. The recovery plan used the special-purpose salvage vessel Glomar Explorer. In the last ten years of his life, 1966 to 1976, Hughes lived in hotels in many cities—including Beverly Hills, Boston, Las Vegas, Nassau, Freeport[124] and Vancouver.[125]. [108] Showalter told in an interview that because he frequently met with Peters, Hughes' men threatened to ruin his career if he did not leave her alone. [citation needed], Initially staying in the Desert Inn, Hughes refused to vacate his room, and instead decided to purchase the entire hotel. Howard Hughes was an After disputes, Kaiser withdrew from the project and Hughes elected to continue it as the H-4 Hercules. [66] In 1966, Hughes was forced to sell his TWA shares. He took his first flying lesson at 14, and attended Fessenden School in Massachusetts in 1921. In 1932 Hughes founded the Hughes Aircraft Company, a division of Hughes Tool Company, in a rented corner of a Lockheed Aircraft Corporation hangar in Burbank, California, to build the H-1 racer. A new book details the bitter battle over his estate", "Was this billionaire recluse truly mad? Hughes wanted the flight to be a triumph of American aviation technology, illustrating that safe, long-distance air travel was possible. They put in a request for the smallest amount the company could provide for a special order, 350 gallons (1,300 L), and had it shipped from Los Angeles. [14] He was an indifferent student, with a liking for mathematics, flying, and mechanics. [20]:45–46 The Racket (1928) and The Front Page (1931) were also nominated for Academy Awards. During the 1960s and early 1970s, he disapproved of underground nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site. The Hughes Space and Communications Group and the Hughes Space Systems Division were later spun off in 1948 to form their own divisions and ultimately became the Hughes Space and Communications Company in 1961. During a long pause between the years of the dismissed charges against Hughes, Charnay, and their partners, Howard Hughes mysteriously died mid-flight while on the way to Houston from Acapulco. [citation needed], President Harry S. Truman sent the Congressional medal to Hughes after the F-11 crash. [121], Hughes insisted on using tissues to pick up objects to insulate himself from germs. Hughes officially died in April 1976, an emaciated, drug-addicted, long-haired, tragic, lonely old man who proved to some people money couldn’t buy happiness.”. The Early Life of Howard Hughes He was born 70 years earlier in Houston, Texas, to Howard Hughes Sr., a dashing, if mercurial, industrialist and Allene (née) Gano, a debutante descendant of southern aristocracy. Within weeks of acquiring the studio, Hughes dismissed 700 employees. But even as Reece struggles to "know" his subject, his own rapidly unraveling life keeps finding unexpected ways to intrude.With a deft comic touch and an astounding narrative style, Steven Carter's novel creates a picture of a Hughes that might have been, a biographer that can't separate his subject from his own visions of grandeur, and a public that demands its heroes be larger than life-if only so they can be more easily torn down. A Heartbreaking Work That Staggers Some Geniuses, Reviewed in the United States on September 30, 2003. Six months later Hughes sold the studio to the General Tire and Rubber Company for $25 million. Charnay later bought Four Star, the film and television production company that produced The Conqueror. [32], Other aviator awards include: the Bibesco Cup of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale in 1938, the Octave Chanute Award in 1940, and a special Congressional Gold Medal in 1939 "in recognition of the achievements of Howard Hughes in advancing the science of aviation and thus bringing great credit to his country throughout the world". ", "TYCOONS: The Secret Life of Howard Hughes", "The movie so toxic it killed John Wayne: the tragedy of The Conqueror", "Business magnate and famed aviator Howard Hughes dies", "Howard Hughes and the atomic bomb in middle of Nevada", "Clifford Irving, Howard Hughes Prankster, Dies at 87", "Melvin Dummar, 74, Who Claimed Howard Hughes Left Him Millions, Dies", "Melvin and Howard (1980) – Movie Preview. Albert Lodwick of Mystic, Iowa, provided organizational skills as the flight operations manager. Hughes was booked on suspicion of negligent homicide and held overnight in jail until his attorney, Neil S. McCarthy, obtained a writ of habeas corpus for his release pending a coroner's inquest. Howard Hughes, in full Howard Robard Hughes, Jr., (born December 24, 1905, Houston, Texas, U.S.—died April 5, 1976, in an airplane over southern Texas), American manufacturer, aviator, and motion-picture producer and director who acquired enormous wealth and celebrity from his various ventures but was perhaps better known for his eccentricities, especially his reclusiveness. ", "Hollywood and the downwinders still grapple with nuclear fallout", U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit via Leagle, "Jury Refuses to Vote Indictment That Omits Hughes", "3 Hughes Associates Deny Guilt In AirWest Case", Hood College's Harold Weisberg Archive, Digital Collection, "United States v. David B. Charnay, et. ... get your fuckin ' jumbo jet off my Airport '' of 1958, his hygiene was terrible for,. 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