Can The Real Howard Hughes...
December, 1971
Can the Real Howard Hughes...Toward the latter part of 1924, a lanky 18-year-old walked into a Houston courtroom to make an unusual request. Under an obscure Texas law, a minor who could prove that he was competent to handle his own affairs was entitled to inherit a business and run it.Howard Robard Hughes was in court to invoke that law. The cards were partially stacked in his favor. An old family friend, Judge Walter Monteith, was presiding. Big Howard, young Howard's father, had died that yea...