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...seasoned jnovie star, he turned to nod to the spectators. They saw a lank, dark-mustached man in a rumpled, ill-fitting grey suit, his scrawny neck sticking out of a too-large collar. He did not look like a formidable adversary for Maine's portly, assured Owen Brewster. It was because of Senator Brewster, the chairman of the committee, that Howard Hughes was there. For two weeks they had shot at each other in the newspapers. Now their duel was to be resumed under oath...
...whatever on the $18 million it invested in Howard Hughes's mammoth wooden flying boat; and why it had received only one unusable aircraft for the $22 million it sank in Hughes's XF-11 photo-reconnaissance plane. But there was another more pressing point, and Senator Brewster went rapidly...
...that "no undue delicacy will delay our taking up ... things of a more personal character." With no delicacy whatever, Hughes launched into his accusation. "I charge specifically that during a luncheon at the Mayflower Hotel [in Washington] in the week beginning Feb. 10, 1947, in the suite of Senator Brewster, that the Senator told me in so many words that if I would agree to merge Trans World Airline [which Hughes controls by owning 46% of its stock] with Pan American and would go along with his community airline bill, there would be no further hearings in this matter...
Then, said Hughes, he telephoned Juan Trippe and the Pan Am chief had flown to California. "I asked him what he would do about Senator Brewster. He said he would ask him to hold up the investigation and also try to delay hearings on the community air bill with the hope that we might get together on both matters...
Meet the Press (Fri. 10 p.m., Mutual). Four newsmen with plenty to ask Senator Owen Brewster...