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...wasn't a liar. I pay you a C-and-a-half where you, you plant big lies about me and the club all over the map... [But] you are a personal liar too, because ya don't do the work that I pay ya for." - Joe Robard (Joseph Leon) in the film "Sweet Smell of Success...
...legendary, invisible, mysterious, outrageous Howard Robard Hughes was dead. No American had ever intrigued and confounded his fellow citizens as did the once handsome and dashing Hughes. Squeezing several implausible careers into one lifetime, he was the fabled billionaire who squired and sometimes seduced the world's most beautiful women, the provocative moviemaker, the daring pilot, the unchallenged and capricious captain of an industrial empire and a huge airline, the innovative weaponmaker on whom the nation's defense rested in part. Yet despite his wealth and onetime glamour, he had turned into a recluse whose obsession for privacy...
...precisely 4 p.m. last Wednesday, gamblers in the Hughes-owned casinos in Las Vegas were startled to hear over the P.A. system: "We ask that you pause for one minute of silence in reverence and remembrance of our good friend and a great American, Howard Robard Hughes...
Died. Howard Robard Hughes, 70, enigmatic, reclusive billionaire; of kidney failure; while en route from Acapulco to a Houston hospital (see THE NATION...
They pursued him with subpoenas and summonses, with private dicks and dirty tricks and the costliest battery of lawyers ever assembled. Through twelve incredible years of litigation, Howard Robard Hughes Jr. remained the Great American Snark-invisible, unreachable, unpredictable...