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Away back, Harry Truman's Senate War Investigating Committee had taken a couple of quick sniffs at the war contracts let to Howard Hughes, the West Coast plane builder, movie producer and bachelor millionaire. Last February, the SWIC, now headed by Maine's loud and mistrustful Owen Brewster, sniffed at Hughes again. The committee was still sniffing cautiously last week when a rank outsider, slight, swarthy Society Columnist Igor Cassini (Cholly Knickerbocker), suddenly lit on an angle that took the sniffing out of congressional back rooms and into the headlines. The Hughes probe was loaded with girls...
Howard Hughes, plane-builder being investigated by a Senate committee, retorted "circus ballyhoo" to a subpoena from the committee and said that he couldn't make it until Wednesday because of business. His business--at least with the government ordered, huge flying boat--was reported as possibly costing the U.S. an extra...
Young was a stern and practical man. He was also a diplomat, a statesman, an empire builder and a begetter of children such as America had seldom seen...
Tail Spin. Waco Aircraft Co., of Troy, Ohio, famed light-plane builder, joined the long list of manufacturers who have abandoned plans for making personal planes. It discontinued work on its four-place Aristocraft, blamed increased costs for its "reluctant decision." Waco will build trailers, stay out of the airplane field until "suitable" designs can be found...
Clara Bow, Billie Dove and Vilma Banky took bows in Hollywood when Body-Builder Terry Hunt complained in print: "It's not a pleasant word, but most . . . actresses . . . are too skinny." Clara and Billie and Vilma, recalled Hunt wistfully, "had well-filled faces with character. You could tell them apart...