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Howard Hughes
American aerospace engineer and business magnate (1905–1976)
This article is about the American businessman and film producer. For other people, see Howard Hughes (disambiguation).
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Born | Howard Robard Hughes Jr. (1905-12-24)December 24, 1905 Houston, Texas, U.S. |
Died | April 5, 1976(1976-04-05) (aged 70) Houston, Texas, U.S. |
Resting place | Glenwood Cemetery |
Alma mater | California Institute of Technology Rice University (dropped out in 1924)[1] |
Occupation(s) | Aerospace engineer, business magnate, film producer, investor, philanthropist, pilot |
Years active | 1926–1976 |
Title | Chairman and CEO of Summa Corporation Founder of The Howard Hughes Corporation Founder of the Hughes Aircraft Company Founder and benefactor of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Owner of Hughes Airwest Airlines |
Board member of | Hughes Aircraft Company Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
Spouses | Ella Botts Rice (m. 1925; div. 1929)Jean Peters (m. 1957; div. 1971) |
Parent(s) | Howard R. Hughes Sr. (father) Allene Stone Gano (mother) |
Relatives | John Gano (ancestor) Rupert H •
On May 6, 1954, I was walking through the department store in my Wisconsin hometown of 5000 when I heard an important announcement on the radio: an English medical student had finally broken the seemingly insurmountable 4-minute barrier in the 1-mile run (Figure 1). He accomplished this despite a busy medical schedule. Bannister would typically take off his white medical coat, rush from St. Mary's Hospital to the metro, and squeeze in a 30-minute workout during his lunch break. Figure 1.Open in a new tab I wish I could have been there that day to hear the announcer, Norris McWhirter, in typical British-controlled understatement, give the results:
In 1995, I had the occasion to meet that former medical student, now Sir Roger Ban |