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Away back, Harry Truman's Senate War Investigating Committee had taken a couple of quick sniffs at the war contracts let to Howard Hughes, the West Coast plane builder, movie producer and bachelor millionaire. Last February, the SWIC, now headed by Maine's loud and mistrustful Owen Brewster, sniffed at Hughes again. The committee was still sniffing cautiously last week when a rank outsider, slight, swarthy Society Columnist Igor Cassini (Cholly Knickerbocker), suddenly lit on an angle that took the sniffing out of congressional back rooms and into the headlines. The Hughes probe was loaded with girls...
...motives of the Brewster investigation got lost in a Scotch mist, while front pages bloomed with a mixture of cheesecake and pious duckings about "babes, booze, and brass." Then came the names...
...inscrutable Mr. Hughes, who had been ignoring the whole thing in Hollywood, suddenly got mad. In an open letter to Brewster he blared: "Since you think it is so horrible for anyone to accept my hospitality, why don't you tell about the $1,400 worth of airplane trips you requested and accepted from me? . . . Why not tell that this investigation was really born the day that TWA [in which Hughes is the principal stockholder] first flew the Atlantic . . . the day TWA first challenged the theory that only Juan Trippe's great Pan American Airways had the sacred...
Next day the planemakers trooped to Washington to tell their story to Senator Owen Brewster's aviation subcommittee. Glenn Martin, short of cash, has been able to borrow only $3,000,000 from bankers. He has had to ask RFC for a $25,000,000 loan to keep operating. Martin emphasized that modern planes can't be built on a shoestring basis. Said he: "National defense needs have advanced to a supertechnical stage which makes it impractical and unrealistic, if not impossible, to carry out the Government's past policy of a skeleton peacetime military organization...
...fire around dawn drove Musicomedy Writers Herbert & Dorothy Fields (Let's Face It, Annie Get Your Gun) out of their 18-room house in Brewster, N.Y. Some $15,000 worth of furnishings went up in flames, but rural firemen managed to save the house: the Fields had a full swimming pool left over from summer...