*howard hughes*

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*’24 december 1905′ – ‘5 april 1976’*

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(first boy in neighborhood with motorized bicycle at age 12)

(built from parts taken from father’s steam engine)

(indifferent student)

(into mechanics / flying / mathematics)

(took first flying lesson at age 14)

(audited mathematic and aeronautical engineering courses at caltech)

(his mother allene died when he was 17 years old)

(complications of ectopic pregnancy)

(his father howard died when he was 19 years old)

(heart attack)

(created medical research laboratory)

(inherited 75% of family fortune)

(at age 19 he was declared an emancipated minor)

(golfer)

(had handicap of 3 during early 20s)

(played with top players including gene sarazen)

(rarely played competitively)

(gave up interest when he couldn’t beat the club pro)

(rice university dropout)

(married a girl a year older than him at age 20)

(moved to los angeles where he went to make movies)

‘everybody’s acting’ (1927)

(at age 22)

‘two arabian knights’ (1928)

(first Academy Award for Best Director of a Comedy Picture)

(both were financial successes)

‘the racket’ (1928)

(howard hughes’ wife returned to houston and filed for divorce in 1929)

(when hughes was 24 years old)

hughes became a playboy:

bessie love (7 years older)

(mistress during first marriage)

billie dove (2 years older)

katharine hepburn (2 years younger)

bette davis (3 years younger)

olivia de havilland (11 years younger)

(and younger sister joan fontaine / 12 years younger)

(proposed to joan fontaine several times)

gene tierney (15 years younger)

(remained friends)

(born in brooklyn)

(supported her mentally retarded daughter)

ava gardner (17 years younger)

(personally disliked jean harlow)

(liked jane russell)

(tried to bed her after a party)

(she was married and refused him)

(they became lifelong friends)

(hughes was perpetual breast man)

(he approached sex mechanically)

(reading sex manuals?)

(compulsive girl collector)

spent $3.8 million to make flying film ‘hell’s angels’ (1930)

‘the front page’ (1931)

(both nominated for academy awards)

‘scarface’ (1932)

(censors concerned with violence)

(learned to fly at LA’s rogers aiport)

(from aviation pioneers like moye stephens)

(built hughes airport in glendale california)

(set world records)

(built several aircrafts himself)

‘hughes aircraft company’ (1932)

(from rented space in aircraft)

(started the move from california to nevada to take advantage of low taxes)

‘Hughes H-1 Racer’

(designed by richard palmer?)

(in 1935 set what he thought to be the airspeed record of 352mph)

(over test course in santa ana CA)

(Giuseppe Motta had reached 362 mph in 1929 and George Stainforth reached 407.5 mph in 1931)

(struck and killed pedestrian in 1936)

(in LA)

(age 31)

(he was drunk at the time)

(and driving erratically / too fast)

(spent the night in jail)

(but then witness changed their story)

(then flying H-1 Racer redesigned with extended wings in 1937)

(set new record by flying from LA to NYC nonstop in 7 hours 28 minutes 25 seconds)

(beating own previous record of 9 hours 27 minutes)

(average speed of 322mph for course of flight)

(1938)

(flew around the world in 91 hours)

(beat previous record by more than 4 hours)

(started in NYC)

(flew an aircraft not of his own design)

(lockheed super electra)

(bought controlling share of TWA airlines in 1939 for $7 million)

‘the outlaw’ (1943)

(censors concerned with sex)

(hughes designed special bra for jane russell)

(near-fatal plane crash in 1946)

(piloting experimental US Army Air Force aircraft over LA)

(crashed into Beverly hills neighborhood surrounding country club)

(hit 3 houses)

(designed a new hospital bed)

(age 41)

(started wearing moustache after this accident to cover lip scars)

(ala paul mccartney)

(started using morphine as a painkiller)

(and codeine)

‘Hughes H-4 Hercules’

(world’s largest flying boat)

(largest aircraft made from wood)

(‘spruce goose’ / though it was actually made of birch)

(built in hughes factory)

(318 feet 11 inch wingspan / largest of all time)

(later beat in length and mass by Antonov An-225)

(aircraft completed after the end of world war II)

(flown in 1947 for 1 mile at 70 feet above the water)

‘hughes helicopter division’ (1947)

(watched movies for 4 months nonstop)

(emerged in spring of 1948)

(ate only chocolate bars and milk)

(relieved himself in empty bottles and containers)

(surrounded by dozens of kleenex boxes)

(stacked and re-arranged)

(detailed memos to aides on yellow legal pads)

(telling them not to look at him?)

(to respond when spoken to)

(otherwise not to speak to him)

(sat naked in his chair)

(had not bathed or cut hair/nails for weeks)

(moved to bungalow at beverly hills hotel)

(rented out rooms for aides / wife / girlfriends)

(sat with pink hotel napkin placed over his genitals)

(spent $11 million in a single year at the hotel)

(started buying up all restaurant chains and 4-star hotels founded within texas borders

(picked up objects with tissues)

(hair cut / nails trimmed once a year)

(several doctors kept in house / but hughes didn’t listen to them)

(‘mormon mafia’)

(latter day saints)

‘hughes aerospace group’ (1948)

bought RKO Pictures in 1948

(struggling hollywood studio)

‘howard hughes medical institute’ (1953)

(married jean peters in 1957)

(age 52)

(jean peters was 31)

‘vertigo’ (1958)

(alludes to howard hughes and his bra)

1960 presidential election

(howard hughes gave richard nixon’s brother donald a $205,000 loan)

(1966 – 1976)

(howard hughes and entourage starts moving from one hotel to the next)

(arrives by train to las vegas and takes up residence at desert inn)

(howard hughes wanted to glamorize las vegas image)

(disapproved of underground nuclear testing at nevada test site)

1968 film ‘ice station zebra’

(nominated for two academy awards / best effects and best cinematography)

(1971)

(jean peters files for divorce)

(they hadn’t lived together for many years)

(living in nicaragua hotel in 1972)

(when the earthquake struck)

(1972)

clifford irving pretends to have co-written authorized autobiography of howard hughes

(howard himself denounces this as a hoax)

(irving spends 17 months in prison)

(hughes approached by CIA to help recover soviet submarine K-129 which had sunk near Hawaii four years earlier)

(died on board an aircraft owned by robert graf)
(from penthouse at ‘acapulco fairmont princess hotel’ in acapulco)
(to methodist hospital in houston)
(or from the bahamas?)
(alias ‘john t. conover’)

(kidney failure as cause of death)
(age 71)

(weighed 90 pounds)

(long hair + beard)

(long toenails + fingernails)

(hypodermic needles still in arms)

(other internal organs were perfectly healthy)

(built houston’s first radio transmitter at age 11)

Howard R. Hughes, Sr., who patented the two-cone roller bit, which allowed rotary drilling for petroleum in previously inaccessible places

(founded ‘Hughes Tool Company’ in 1909)

(born in ‘texas’)

(mother a descendant of ‘english royalty’?)

(6’ 4”)

(obsessed with ‘peas’)

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