Word: howards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Howard Johnson, Red Barn...
...Howard Hughes, who honed to perfection an almost fiendish talent for playing off his aides and lawyers against one other, would be delighted with the tangled mess he left behind. His death 14 months ago immediately set up a potential clash between his long-estranged family and the financially privileged insiders who ran Hughes' solely owned Summa Corp., which was founded in 1972 to oversee his vast holdings. At first, to almost everybody's surprise, peace reigned between the rival camps. But, after months of growing tensions, a full-scale battle for Hughes' fortune has now broken...
...found, Lummis, who is the court-appointed temporary co-administrator of Hughes' estate, hopes to divide up that estate in an amicable settlement among the 22 heirs. He buttressed his position last week among the heirs by negotiating a new pact that includes two adopted children of Howard's uncle, Film Producer Rupert Hughes, who had been left out of an earlier agreement. Fighting back, Davis, who wants the entire estate to escape the 77% federal death levy by going to the tax-free Howard Hughes Medical Institute, has petitioned a Delaware judge to strip Lummis...
Lummis, who resembles the young Hughes to an almost uncanny degree, quickly adopted some of Howard's habits. He moved into a suite in the Summa-owned Sands Hotel and avoided the press as assiduously as Hughes had. A skilled financier, he began to study Summa's books, and what he saw frightened him. During the final reclusive years of Howard Hughes, as the old man lapsed into comas and became hooked on drugs, his affairs were miserably mismanaged. From 1971 through September 1976, Summa lost $132 million, mainly on casinos and hotels in Las Vegas. During those...
Emma is still another tribute, but this time with political content: it's based on the life of American anarchist Emma Goldman. Written by another anarchist type, B.U. professor and wildman Howard Zinn. Performed by the Next Move, an anarchistic theater group (and a very good one). At the Next Move Theater, 955 Boylston St. in Boston. Curtain at 8 p.m., tickets...