Hughes, Howard (1905-1976)
When he passed away on August 16, 1976, billionaire financier Howard Hughes was considered the world's most mysterious man. Rumors abounded about the strange way he l...
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Howard Robard Hughes (1905-1976) was a flamboyant entreprenuer who used an inherited fortune to achieve a national reputation in the motion picture and aviation industries, remaining in the news in la...
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Howard Hughes Jr.'s childhood offered few hints about the remarkable career to come.Born in 1905 in Houston, Hughes led a sheltered life.Donald Barlett and James Steele described him in their book ...
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Frank William Gay, a senior corporate officer for Howard Hughes and the recent target of a renewed claim on the billionaire's fortune, has died. He was 86.Gay, who lived in Humble, Texas, died Mond...
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Howard Hughes could have tied the knot with the Hollywood glamour girl anywhere in the world. But the billionaire's obsession with privacy prompted him to marry actress Jean Peters in the remote mi...
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Actress Mala Powers, who played Roxanne to Jose Ferrer's "Cyrano de Bergerac" and starred in other films of the 1940s and 1950s, has died. She was 76.Powers died Monday of complications from leukem...
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A man dressed in a World War II military uniform attacked two employees at the Evergreen Aviation Museum this week, police said. McMinnville Police Capt. Dennis Marks said Gerald Lahey, a transient...
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Harvard University could be about to name its first female president, as the governing board charged with vetting candidates has narrowed its search to a single one, historian Drew Gilpin Faust, ac...
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A Concorde jetliner that is a featured attraction at New York's Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum arrived Friday at its temporary new home in Brooklyn.The sleek white supersonic aircraft was mov...
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A Concorde jetliner that is a featured attraction at New York's Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum arrived Friday at its temporary new home in Brooklyn.The sleek white supersonic aircraft was mov...
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Harvard University could be about to name its first female president, as the governing board charged with vetting candidates has narrowed its search to a single one, historian Drew Gilpin Faust, ac...
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