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JANE AUSSELL

LAUNCHED

his headquarters, they ens re- wist the temptations of the city

Hughes In 53 ti Christmas Eve, but there will be no erle- brations.

New York, Wednesday. HOWARD HUGHES, America's most enigmatic of splendid sin.

and arrogant millionaire, today read the settlement terms of the strike which has shut down his T.W.A. airline and cost him several He said: "No comment for the

million dollars. Press."

f

travels

incognito Jurly, add somites in disguise, He so employs a staff of Mocus To protect hun from the Press and public.

Howard Robert Hughes, known appropriately 1.R.H. or His Royal Highness, rarely has a statement for the Press. His public rela- tions advisers, Carl Byuir Associates, are employed tu keep Hughes out of the news, away from the spot. light, and not to publicise have not al. him.

They ways succeeded. Hughies, while the Inysty millionaire, can't belp catching the headlines, al- though he changes is list of private telephone numbers regit-

undoubtedly

His Choice Hughes chose Mormons be- cause they don't drink, emeke, gamble, or chase weren, and In the goudy gambling centre of 1.as Vegas, which Hughes makes

ROUND-UP

NUCLEAR POWER STATIONS

ALL the reactors at the two Culder Hall nuclear power stations

workluk The Arst remetor in Cumberland are now operating in March this year and has been running successfully It Is announced. Its delivery of power was delayed by an accident furbo generator in June but this will probably start in

The latest reactor to begin operating will The near future. go into electricity production two or three months later.

tu

PREHISTORIC VILLAGE

PREHISTORIC village 13

believed to have

A Braintree, by Mr Juck Landsny, historian and

few the pust

wechs During Wall Street Ans been watching Interest. pecullar

J

withi Hughes 225

Juggling been millions in a series of bewilder- ing moves, transferring huge sume from one cumpasy to an- urther.

When be fol mu.K.O

which

controlled ke Pictures,

and only visited completely oneel midnight he wrote off R.K.O. losses. ten years' tax was going bust, and Hughes to- day is obviously glad that he is no longer in the motion pie- sure business,

The days when he used to escort a procession of sim beautles-Lana Turner, Ava Gardner, Yvonne de Carle, Cyd Charisse. Ginger Rogers, Terry Moore, Katharine Hepburn, etc.

acnt

ot planc-louds urekids to their hotel suites are

-

over.

have and

Hughes is the sober. married mut since he and former actress John Peters were wed in March 1957 they only a few appearances in puts 1le and are even reluctant to pose for pletures together,

In trouble?

JANE

RUSSELL

000,000 and $1,000,000,000; John D. Rockerfeller Jr., with Tween $100,000,000 and 900,000; or Mrs Melion Bruck, with the same fortune as Rocke- teller.

bo-

$700,-

Incidentally, anyone with hss Than $30,000,000 the Mur pons. The Goulds, and the Guggenhehns do not appear in Fortuw's study of the Very Hich.

HOWARD

HUGHES

DON IDDON'S DIARY

JEAN PETERS

She woreng

MITZ! GAYNOR

She let him

Aviation is his great love, and he employs

are than 3,008 selchusta, engineers, and lech- atelatin at the Hughes Aircraft Company, which keeps a totul at Culver City of 18,000 men alid unother 11,000 at Tucson and Los Angeles on overtime.

The poce at which Hughes lives and works has aged him. He tooks worn and old and is atmost completely deat without the hearing aid which he hates to wear.

"We've got to...

in

Every

success Hussian outer space angers him, and ho

his Eces around muttering to technicians: "We've got to enten up, we've got to."

In-

Although he has never erested innself much in politics articulate on the be vun be threat to the West,

The few people who are close to Hughes seen in awe of the *IA. Johnny Meyers, the phung playboy who used to plete up the bil in the nightclubs when Hughes was on the eight- club beat and cocktail circuit, says You're not dealing with an ordinary guy. You're 'dent- remarkable ing with a very man. A kind of feudal baron; of the 20th century."

It is not generally known that Hughes built his own vost fur- Lune by henself, pinying hunches, taking audacious Hughes himself does not talk M:1zi Gaynor once au "The chances, transferring blocks of

frum one stecka

company to much about money except to joke other girls can have the presents arether, and running the whole

have Hughes." As it

show as supreme boss. occasionally about the 31,000 a But started

week for life which he contacted turned out she hadn't.

Today Hughes sat in his offica reare ugo to pay to Jane Russell

the quite unknown I was wheller she ever makes another

Peters who

at Lan Vegas tranly approving "bit" octreo Join m or not.

quarter-page newspaper anis captured the last tycoon.

nouncement. It road; T.W.A. On himself Hughes has never Flies Again, We would appro- He lounges clate your patronage.. The stříko spent much money, По

about in a purta coat, slacks, is actDed and T.WA. Is assum-

cormal and loafers, cals only when he ing

operation Scuts is hungry-tually a salad with are renodlately available to 70 strips of bacua-doca not drink US. cities and 23 world centres

He is obsessed overseas. We want your bud or make much

Make your reservations with the missile oge, and his ners. Euge Culver City plant in Cali- now." forn, where advanced aircraft and rockets are built, is his kingdom.

existed Bear writer, of Castle Hedingham, Essex. He says there is evidence that in the Chapel Hill and Skitts Hill area, on the River Brain, a lake vilinge support existed. Pests were driven into the marshy ground to a platform for dwellings similar to the lake dwellings at Glaston- Iniry. Red deer horns and tunes of other early antials had been found in the wren, he koys,

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TROPHIES from a work of foreign battlefields, captured over the year by the Suffolk Regiment, are likely to be kept in The Suffolk Regi- ment is losing its separate identity as the result of the voming amalgamation with the loyal Norfolks. Regimental officers want to cure that something "realty Suffolk" shail renala in meronry of the regiment's old glories. The proposal is to transfer the re- gimental museum, with its relics and trophies, to Ipswich negotiations have been opened

with the museum'a committee of

sh lown council. The rug ment's battle trophies date back to 1685,

The other week he telephoned Herts that Hughes La n

naoclate in New York and and is financial trouble

being for half an hour discussed compelled to sell interests in his

deal. Periodically $14,000,000 huge toot company to keep his the man at the other end of the T.W.A. flying high are not con- telephone heard coins drop and sidered true by the best brains asked Hughes where he was, in finance and the Stock Mar-

calling Mughen said "I am El (Hughes controls 74 pc. of T.W.A.'s stock, although he from a ling station. Call me doesn't even bother to list him back and give me a straight yes or no-say, wait a minute, beller self as a director.)

make after six and get the Forlune magazine recently night rate."

intensive study of richest mer

But not mean Ald Howard They list Hutches as having a personal Yet he is not a menit tað, fortune of between $200,000,000 and his former girl friends say $400,000,000--behind Paul he was always giving them pre- Getty, who has between $700,- sents.

minde 1152 Ameries's Women and

and

and

What wh Hughes tackle i

from long- next? He recolla range plane, but during the next; Hughes himself is a gifted en- few days, he will be directing gineer and responsible for the the Howard Hughes Medical In- charitable Hughes Electronic Brain which starte, a non-prost

combat diseas is carelert in the nose of Amer Institution "to can al Comadian Interceptor al human suffering" to whic

has Are the Falcon Hughen

given platies which

millens of doliers, missiles.

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