Word: howard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...already gone a romantic round one with this woman reporter, is a perfect complement; his witty rejoinders and aw-shucks mugging are irresistible, but you know he'd be unfaithful again in a minute. And not that this film needs anything more to make it a gem, but Howard Hawks' recreation and direction of a late thirties newspaper crew is perfection...
...Howard H. Hiatt is dean of the School of Public Health...
...TIME cover, Dec. 13). Now new evidence, taken in the Los Angeles Superior Court in cases to determine Hughes' legal residence, is becoming public-and it only confirms and elaborates the worst suspicions about his decline and death. According to sworn testimony from his personal aides and doctors, Howard Hughes became addicted to the tranquilizer Valium. As a total recluse living in a series of penthouse hideaways, he popped large-dosage 10-mg. blue tablets, which his personal aides faithfully recorded as BBs (for blue bombers) in the daily log that they kept on his activities. On many occasions...
...addition to his tranquilizer habit, Hughes injected himself with a mysterious clear liquid that knocked him out so violently that the syringe was often left dangling in his arm. According to Personal Aide Howard Eckersley, the liquid was a codeine solution. Hughes, who called the drugs "my goodies," would toss a codeine tablet into a water-filled hypodermic and shake the syringe until the pill melted. Then he would give himself a shot; if he could find a vein in his wizened body, he would mainline the injection...
...estate, charging that Lummis had a conflict of interest as both co-administrator and Summa chairman. Lummis' answer was to fire Davis as Summa chief counsel (he had earlier kicked him off the board). A hard man to beat, Davis simply moved his power base to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, run by the oldtimer triumvirate of Davis, Gay and Nadine Henley, Hughes' onetime assistant. The institute is a tax-free foundation that Hughes established in 1954 as sole owner of Hughes Aircraft, a major defense contractor (estimated 1976 sales: $1.6 billion). Hughes Helicopter has won a defense...