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...side were the old-line executives of the Summa Corp., to which Hughes had transferred most of his holdings after selling the Hughes Tool Co. in 1972. On the other was William Rice Lummis, 47, a Houston attorney, who is Hughes' cousin. He is the representative of a small handful of Hughes' heirs, most of whom had not even seen the eccentric recluse for 38 years prior to his death...
Each side had its hopes. The Summa triumvirate of Executive Vice President Frank William (Bill) Gay, 55, General Counsel Chester Davis, 66, and Nadine Henley, 69, Hughes' former administrative assistant, want to continue to run the empire. Under their plan, Hughes' assets would be transferred entirely to the tax-exempt Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and they, as trustees, would remain in command...
...Hughes left no authenticated will. Since his death, on April 5 in a jet ambulance over Texas, at least 36 purported Hughes wills have surfaced, but none of them appears to be genuine. Summa conducted a worldwide search but failed to turn up a signed document. The search did, however, yield an unsigned carbon of a 1954 will, written at the time Hughes set up the medical institute and transferred to it the ownership of Hughes Aircraft, then worth about $250 million in net assets. The strategy of the Summa people seems to be to present this carbon copy...
...Virginia who is graduating today with high honors in Anthropology, is one such other-directed person who has finally (and barely) achieved his goal of being admitted to medical school. His commitment to medicine, particularly rural medicine in his home state, is unimpeachable. He spent last summer researching a summa cum laude anthropology thesis on rural health care delivery in Clay County, W. Va. For another summer, he worked in a clinic in Morgantown...
...Philosophy Department also awarded no summa degrees this year, but a little over 50 per cent of the department received honors...