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Hyams, who has been called Britain's Howard Hughes, sometimes goes to bizarre lengths to avoid publicity. At his company's annual general meeting last year, he turned up wearing a face-mask; there are few photographs of him. Hyams lives on a Hughesian scale as well. He spent $1,700,000 to acquire a Wiltshire manor. He paid nearly $700,000 for an 878-ton yacht that carries a crew of 30, and has put more than $1,000,000 worth of improvements into it, including $48,000 worth of teleprinter equipment to keep him in communication...
...spent 19 days ensconced in the Hotel Inter-Continental in Managua, Nicaragua, where he may have discussed a link between his Hughes Air West and the country's national airline, and possibly tried to unload two of his mothballed four-engine Convair 880 jets. In another elusively Hughesian airlift he was spirited out of Managua and moved to yet another bank of upper-story suites, this time on the 19th and 20th floors of the opulent Bayshore Inn in Vancouver...
...Noah Dietrich (TIME, Feb. 21), and 3) from their own imaginations. In doing their research, Irving and Suskind visited newspaper and magazine libraries in Las Vegas, Houston, New York and other cities, including that of LIFE, which had a contract to publish excerpts from the manuscript. Thus steeped in Hughesian lore, Suskind and Irving took turns pretending to be Howard Hughes, each alternately being interviewed by the other, to produce the question-and-answer dialogue form that the book eventually took. They apparently thought they could get by with the hoax because they suspected Hughes might either be dead...
...Hungarian forger of modern art, Elmyr de Hory. LIFE will print three 10,000 word installments of the book beginning in early March, and McGraw-Hill will publish the 230,000 word volume a few weeks later. Characteristically, the taping sessions for the book were shrouded in such Hughesian secrecy that a spokesman for the Hughes Tool Co. and Hughes' own public relations firm insist that it must be a hoax...
Howard Hughes' latest effort, The Las Vegas Story, has the same old Hughesian ingredients: Jane Russell's bust, Vincent Price's portrayal of a rich degenerate, a luxurious locale. (The Fabulous Hotel in Las Vegas), and a spectacular chase sequence near the finish. Only this time Victor Mature (not Robert Mitchum) plays the hero, and Hoagy Carmichael has been thrown in for kicks too, along with an incredible diamond necklace rented from Cartier, Inc. The result, as usual, is a preposterously silly picture...
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