Word: howards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Howard's schooling was irregular. He went to private schools in Massachusetts and California, took a few courses at CalTech, attended Rice Institute in Houston for a year. When he tried, he got high marks, especially in math and chemistry...
...Frustration. Two big things happened in 1924-25. Hughes Sr. suddenly died, and Howard got married, at a swank wedding in Houston, to Ella Rice (of the same family that founded Rice Institute). Four years later, they were divorced. Hughes was already in Hollywood, bringing starlets -home in droves. Ella got a million dollar settlement. Hughes now resents any mention of his marriage; he would rather be regarded as the world's most ineligible bachelor. People who know him well say firmly that he will never marry again...
...went to Hollywood. Since boyhood, fascinated by the movies, he had jotted down ideas for scripts in a notebook. He had even met and cultivated a movie actor named Ralph Graves. In Hollywood, his uncle, Rupert Hughes-a prosperous fictioneer and biographer-had been writing and directing pictures. Howard hung around the sets, asked questions...
...This was Howard Hughes, the mechanical man. Things came easy; people didn't, quite. It was a commoner & commoner malady in Howard Hughes's century. If it needed a name, it might be called hypertrophy of the gadgets...
...girl in a small apartment, told her he did not think the place suited her personality. He said he would find her something better. A few days later, he escorted her to a spacious six-room apartment, so lavishly appointed that the girl's eyes popped. "Oh, Howard," she breathed, "this is wonderful!" "Yes," said Howard drily, "there's only one thing that worries me-can you afford...