ABSTRACT
Are the remains of Howard Hughes being secretly transferred from cemetery to cemetery in the same way Hughes used to change hotels? With legions of reporters still hawking information about the settlement of his estate, this might prove just as fruitful a line of investigation. For the past fifteen years one of the most durable news items has been Hughes’ quest for anonymity. If Nixon popularized the term “stone-walling,” Hughes certainly gave it validity. Wealthier men like J. Paul Getty and publicity-seeking moneymakers like Bernie Cornfeld have been by-passed and forgotten, but Hughes’ unknown life continues to plumb new depths in the public’s curiosity. Could it be, however, that, in all the intensive search to find the real Hughes, investigators have been overlooking an important clue?—that Hughes might have been attracting the very attention he claimed to be avoiding. A man who sought notoriety in setting world flying records and dating starlets becomes committed to an inescapable identity. To such a mentality, rejection of the world’s interest necessitated that the world be made well aware of this important decision.
