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...Howard Hughes roared on, demanding "equal rights," and got a big hand from the audience. With that, red-faced Homer Ferguson ordered the room cleared of all but reporters and cameramen...
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...
...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...
Senate guards moved forward uncertainly, and one asked the Senator who was to be removed. "Whoever demonstrated," roared the Senator. Said the cop: "Well, sir, I guess that's everybody." Ferguson rescinded his edict...
...hearing was getting considerably out of hand, and Ferguson was looking hard for some way to get it back on the track. At one point, exasperated by Hughes's free-swinging charges, he lectured the witness: "If you believe that because of your great wealth and access to certain channels of publicity you can take control over the committee, you are mistaken. ... It is apparent that you are trying to discredit one member . . . but your prime motive is to discredit the entire committee." Angrily, Ferguson added that there would be no more "side issues." By the end of that...