So, I'm perusing the Fall 2009 issue of Nevada Silver & Blue, the alumni magazine of the University of Nevada, Reno. I get this magazine because I am a proud alumnus of that university.
This issue contains an article titled, "Industrialist Howard Hughes Played a Major Role in Establishment of the School of Medicine."
This much, of course, is true. Hughes donated a couple hundred thousand dollars starting in 1969 to get the medical school off the ground.
But then I came across the following, as told by the school's founding dean, Dr. George Smith:
"I talked to Mr. Hughes directly one time after he gave the commitment. I went to his penthouse in Las Vegas and talked to him through a window to thank him."
This, as most Hughes historians believe, is highly unlikely. Hughes saw very few people during his four years at the Desert Inn in Las Vegas. He was a recluse and did not greet visitors.
Mr. Smith, no doubt respected in his field and all that, either is not telling the truth about this scenario or he was somehow fooled into believing he was talking to Hughes when he was not.
It is very common, I have found, for people to feel a need to tell people they met with Hughes while he was in Las Vegas. I don't know why but otherwise respectable people try to perpetuate these almost-certain fictions.
You can read the alumni magazine article here.
Saturday, October 31, 2009
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Another prime example of a perfectly beleivable citizen, being dissed simply because they claim to have met Hughes. I have come to totally beleive that as one of the witnessess and a Hughes aide was prepared to swear in the Dumars case, that the aides and whoever was directing them from the CIA, met and agreed to deny any stories of Hughes being out to the penthouse or meeting anyone during the 70's.
Now are we to beleive that this "mulitiude of citizenry" are lying or that the Hughes aides were? The integrity of the Hughes aides has been proven faulty in a multiplicty of manners both in court and out, while the entire fabric of American life has been entrusted to the integrity of the common citizenry, by entrusting the vote to them. I suggest that to deny the vericity of so many is to deny the validity of the United States itself!! And anyone stupid enough to beleive this diversion of truth is liable to wake up to a dictatorship one day.
I liked the food at Boulder station but the tobacco stench took away from the enjoyment.
Getting the party line straight before the Hughes panel meeting, so Paul doesn't stick his lip out and refuse to play????????
In the 40's, sure, Dean Smith could have spoke to HRH, Jr. when he disappeared for a couple of months working as a baggage handler at a small airport.
In the 60's? Not a chance. It took a special key to even allow the Desert Inn elevator ninth floor access. Two guards sat at the elevator entrance. Other guards stood at the stairwells. Aides occupied rooms beside HRH's room, and camped in HRH's living room 24/7.
So, a spindly, weak, drugged and very unkept Hughes would have quite a few hurdles to overcome to 'vanish' from the penthouse to meander across Nevada dessert.
If the good Dean spoke to HRH, Jr. through a window, he must have dreamed he was elevated outside the penthouse floor.
Paul Laxalt, former govenor of Nevada had a few conversations w/ HRH, and he would have informed Dean Smith of HRH's largesse.
Enough said...
And Paul Winn finds a new alias after the "I am a great one" aliases revealed his true character! (an egomaniac) IMHO
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