THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY,
OCTOBER 1, 1957,
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London, Sept. 13. OWARD Robárd, Hughes Is rather like a volcano, He is big, powerful and unpredictable. And he has d habit of arupting from time to time and making his presence felt over a sizable part of the earth,
His name became a household word. in every civilised country when he flow 'round the world in record-shattering time in 1938. And he caused almost as great an international stir when he prosented Miss Jano Russell to the world.
HRH
by Simon Kavanaugh
His Iniest eruption has sent à age of 20 when he inherited a ahudder across the wide Atlan 4,000,000
But with than
sealed - Hips polley. But shyness partly. explains his secretiveness,
Power and wealth breed jone oll-well. drilling lness to a degree.
He Hughes it
goes deeper company. c. Ho has coolly requested machinery
He has no relatives whatso some Britannia airliner for his now 31 years older and, it is that.
some £150,000,000
His Trans-World Airlines Company estimated,
ever, not over a cousin. the British richer. when
mother died when he was 10; at a time makers are already working at
ilis power has increased pro his father when he was 20. to meet maximum production
portionately. He is the owner long-standing orders.
of a gigantic aircraft company Paciae coast and the Hughes expects to jump the on the
man behind the United States queue.
guided missile programme,
that the British He knows Overseas Aleways Corporation, who have the biggest Deltaruda order, may be forced to stand down on a limited number in the national interest of building in air- up an export market liners.
He has a controlling interest in the world's third largest air- line company, and among other things he owns all wells, steel mills, hotels, stores, and £1,000,000 private aeroplane.
Howard Hughes will probably Everybody
he
el bis Britannias. He is ac customed to getting what wants.
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In 1938, after around nying the world in When very young, Hughes record time, he married Ella Rice, a girl from was given the hometown of Houston, biggest New his
Welcome But the marriage end. Yerk Texas,
Colonel since ed in divorce tour years later.
the handsome Lindberg made Since then, multi-milloraire, (in younger le solo night
borc a striking re- semblance to Gary Cooper) has days, he had a magnificent procession of
girl friend
to Paris.
Hughes was terrified. And he
much confessed that he was more nervous over making his speech than the flight.
many
For years Hughes. Insisted on personally making, the first Test fight of all his experimental 'piones. And he was not deter- red by several near-fatal
Spectacular
At various times his name has been linked romantically with
Now days Hughes conceala crnishes. Lana Turner, Katherine Hep- burn, Rita Hayworth, Olivia de le shyness remarkably well. Havilland, Paulette Goddard, Ite appears tough, ruthless and And he Ava Gardner, Linda Darnell, supremely confident. Naturally, in his position, he Yvonne de Carla and Ginger has a regiment of assietarts to
make his speeches for him. was so knows almost everybody who is togers-just to mention a few. Eight years ago he
And ych nobody anxious to get the Arst pictures somebody.
Prince really knows him. of
newly-born the Charter that he chartered a Ho is enigmutie, elusive; a
from special Constellation
man who is heord but rarely B.O.A.C. It left London carry- ing only a small package of sech And he bestrides his vast pleturce and arrived in 'Boston alcod of all other aircraft from Europe.
Cost-haste
I baste
£3,000 cost him
beaten by and then he was Arderican newspapers which re celved the pictures by wire,
It would have cost him only
£5 to send the package by ordinary freight 'plane,
to
empire like a colossal shadow.
Howard Hughes i; sa reticent about himself that there is a cominon tendency to judge the man by his actions, This Is fatal,
Hughes's actions are confus Ing. He has designed airliners up blueprints for and drawn brassieres. He has been known
Once Misa Hepburn was asked what she would do if he looked at another woman, Sho was reported to have replied:
would kill him"
Marriage
Hughes, restless and energe- 1, has rarely kept the same
company long enough for a deep
itachment to develop. He has been known to give a girl ente fall of orchids one day, to sign a personal cheque for end bld her farewell the next. £8,000,000 and to query price of a cup of coffee.
the
He has changed in ways. As a young man he was tall, dark and handsome, and something of a playboy. Today ha is haggard, partly dent, in clined to be grumpy. He no longer frequents night clubs or escorts Hollywood beauties.
But one thing in flughes has not changed at all great love of aviation.
Christmas
on
his
air
The most serious was 1946 when he crashed into a house and broke lila nose, collar- bone and seven ribs, punctured his lungs and burned his hands. lle only just pulled through.
ho
When Hughes recovered Have £25,000 to the man who pulled him out of his burning machine and announced that he was marking 20,000,000 in his wili for medical research.
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Yet Hughes is by no means a courageous daredevil. He har purely scientific approach to'
with BUCCCES his of his repeated to him nona Hughes, born Howard
life, and
"Scarface," Introducing another Christmas Eve of 1905, in spectacular alghts were stunts.
Thus, Rficr his father's technical
breaking the Hughes discovery, Paut Muni In March of this year it was herited
had skill and deep interest in any transcontinental fying recoTE Alter a long absenco, Hughes reported that Hughes
agulni. The thing mechanical. At the age in 1930, he told reporters: "I returned to Hollywood in 1840 He is also so surrounded by finally married
and used his old technique of iny!hical tales extravagance. "bride" was said to be actress of 12 he made a radio trans haven't anything to say. cooked-up exploits blasted forth Jean Peters whom he met ten nitter out of a door-bell and a didn't do anything sensational. building up entirely new stars.
motor for
This time he took an unknown self-starting
Howard Hughes has designed bicycle. At 14, he had his first and built some of the greatest 19-year-old model, Jane Rus by dynamic Press agents, that years ago. it is not easy to get an objec-
fight in an acroplane,
aircraft the world has ever seen, sell, and presented her in “The Ho has gone on to break He has won America's Harmon Outlaw." tive slant on the man as he
After a lengthy battle with really is,
numerous flying records and Medal and Congressional Medial when he circumnavigated the for his invaluable services to the censor, Hughes released earth by air in three days he aviation.
the film with posters Blazing reduced the existing record by
But today these services are the legend "mean, moody and more than half.
too often forgotten. Although magnificent" beneath a Hughes has spent twice as many haired voluptuous creature.
The bust had arrived. years in aviation as in Holly- wood, it is with films that his
Anither time he wanted achjeve realism in his air film "Hell's Angel" The making of this eple cost the record sum of dollars and the four inillion lives of Ave men. Hughes gut But one significant fact about la realism.
Hughes 'ands out very clearly. very lonely Howard Hughes has been get. He is basically a ting what he wante since the man.
Made
is
Yet this marrlage has never been confirmed to private the private life of Howard Robard Hughes,
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THE Russians have a plan. It is not war, although millions of the world's big cities is a card repetitively and effectively played. It is the old plan, the original plan-World Communism.
They believe it will dark-come. They believe that
And a Miss Betty Grable said: "I am out of business, I can sell my legs no longer."
In
Howard recent yearF, Hughes has developed many eccentric habits of the rich and the powerful. He will use bla .Hughes first went to Holly own airliner as his office, wear wood at the age of 20, when he crumpled suits, and drink large already needed another outlet quantities of milk when he owns for his energies besides direct one of the biggest breweries in Ing a huge drilling machinery the world company.
Two years ago he held a fim His arrival produced laughter premiere underwater. and derisive comments. But in
a
But for all his eccentricities, six years he had produced many and his appearance of being a prize-winning films as well as ruthless egotist, Hughes is un. some of lesser calibre.
deniably a brilliant man.. His first ambitious effort was The secret of his success? "Hell's Angels." He spent vast Hard work, a natural business
and
all, above sums on making it. Then, just neumen, as it was finished, the talkies tremendous thoroughness and purpose arrived.
single-mindedness of With typical thoroughness, which he brings to every task,
When Hughes took up golf he Hughes decreed that it should be made all over agajo. He studied slow motion pictures of found an unknown girl called his play to reduce his handicap Jean Harlow for the lead. to two. And when Hughes pre- Contrary to the forecasts of pared to fly round the world he so-called experts, Hughes reap- even tested types of bread to ed a handsome proat with that see which one would keep the costliest of all films. And he longest for his sandwiches.
HYPOTHETIC
MEMBERS OF
ASSUMED SOVIET PARLIAMENT VERY INFECTIOUS
Europe will crumble first before the cold logic of their soulless "ideology. because Europe has been tortured: near to hysteria by the rape of War and bled to weakness by economic chaos..
They believe that America is a giant without muscle, flabby with too much good living and self- Indulgence...
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GLOBAL PLAN Against reality, against the evidence of fact, reputation and history. Kremlin belleves the these things, and that the frontiers against Communism will fall without war- although themselves they hold ready to "asslat" in any final struggle.
The plan is grandiose. and global. It is a plan and pro- of patience paganda, a war of nerves
THE SUDDEN RISES IN TEMPERATURE.
AT THE INTER-PARLIAMENTARY UNIÓN ARE, SAID TO BE CAUSED BY GERMS THAT HAVE NO RIGHT TO BE AT A CONFERENCE OF POLÍTICAL DEMOCRACIES,
FASTERN
with the weapons of destruction brandished in the background.
And the last frontier, as the Russians see the situation, is in the South. where the tide of Com
has munism
flooded almost to its possible limits. Beyond lies Aus- tralia.
NEW DEMOCRACY
A "new" country. Ą virile country. A muscled young glant growing up fast, in no serise scared, bewildered or soft,
An Australia getting too little "new blood" even now from the mother country, An Australia which wants to must grow faster and export more to do so.
A country where the de- example of a new mocracy at work and prospering could do more than anything else to offset Communist pro- paganda for the ant-like slave, state,
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