Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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The hottest speculation among the Las Vegas oddsmakers centers on the company that Hughes said he would never sell but then had to give up−TWA. Since its shares are now worth one-seventh of their value when he sold out, he could buy them back for $80-$100...
The last journalist known to have met and talked -with Howard Hughes is TIME'S Frank McCulloch. The year was 1958. McCulloch, then Time-Life bureau chief in Los Angeles, was asked by editors in New York to interview Hughes about his difficulties in raising money to buy some...
I ASSEMBLED a list of about 50 questions, and passed them on to a Hughes aide. About 48 hours later, the phone rang at 11 a.m., and the flat, nasal voice at the other end identified itself as that of Howard Hughes. That started weeks of titillation, intrigue, maneuvering, exhaustion...
"Mr. Hughes," my wife explained, "Frank is exhausted. He went to bed early, and I think he should get a good night's rest, don't you?" "Good heavens, yes, Mrs. McCulloch, and I'm sorry to have been so thoughtless. A pleasant good night. Rest well...