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Quite a Few. According to the rules laid down by the committee, neither of the duelists was to have the chance to cross-examine the other. But when Brewster was finished and Senator Ferguson asked Hughes if he had any questions, the flyer snapped: "Yes-200 to 500 of them." If the committee had not sensed it before, here was conclusive evidence that unexpectedly pugnacious Howard Hughes believed firmly in the maxim that the best defense is a good offense. Senator Ferguson told him to put his questions in writing...
Next day, after a night of consultation with his lawyer and Manhattan Pressagent Carl Byoir, Hughes turned up at the hearing room with a fat bundle of notes in his pocket. He began reading: "Senator Brewster's story is a pack of lies and I can tear it to pieces if I am allowed to cross-examine." Senator Ferguson, his patience wearing thin, turned to the press table and said, sotto voce: "He's a hard man to be nice...
...Very Modest." After more wrangling, Senator Brewster agreed to answer the 40-odd written questions which Hughes had brought along. Certainly, he knew Juan Trippe ("a very able man") and Pan Am's Vice President Sam Pryor ("a very close and gratifying friendship"). Yes, he had accepted a couple of Pan Am airplane rides-once when he was traveling on Senate business about the airline bill, once when he went down to Sam Pryor's "very modest bungalow-type house" at Florida's Kobe Sound, "in Senator Pepper's area." (Snorted Democrat Pepper, a committee member...
...Brewster went on chattily: "In Novemher, twice in the last two years, Mrs. Brewster and I have occupied for one week at Thanksgiving time this small place of five rooms. The Pryors were not there. I paid the cook $5 a day . . . bought groceries and the turkey. I left the place pretty well stocked up with canned goods." Yes, the Senator had accepted other Pan Am hospitality. He had had three breakfasts at the house on Washington's F Street which Pan Am maintains as its executives' headquarters. That house, said the Senator, is also "very modest...
...Nobody kicks around in this country without acquiring a reputation, good or bad. ... I may be a little unkind in what I have to say. . . . Brewster has been described to me as clever, resourceful, a terrific public speaker . . . one of the greatest trick-shot artists in Washington...