Click2Flicks - Aviator: The Story Behind The Movie - Chapter 1 - Preface

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top><table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff cellpadding=5> <tr> <td align=center valign=top><div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>AVIATOR:</p> <p>THE STORY BEHIND THE MOVIE</b></font></p>  <table width="590"> <tr> <td align="CENTER" valign="top" bgcolor="000000" colspan=2><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="3" color="FFFFFF"><b>STORY CHAPTER LINKS</b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5" border="0"> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><a href="#preface"><b>1. STORY PREFACE</b></a></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="aviator_ch2.htm">2. OIL IN TEXAS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="aviator_ch3.htm">3. SOURCE OF THE WEALTH</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="aviator_ch4.htm">4. HOWARD HUGHES: AN ORPHAN</a></b></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5" border="0"> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="aviator_ch5.htm">5. HOWARD TAKES CONTROL</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="aviator_ch6.htm">6. HOWARD MAKES MOVIES</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" height="18"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="aviator_ch7.htm">7. HOWARD IN THE AIR</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" height="18"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><a href="aviator_ch8.htm"><b>8. USED AND RECOMMENDED SOURCES</b></a></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  <p><b><font size="3"><u><a name="preface">PREFACE</a></u></font></b></p> <div align=center><b><i><font face="Times New Roman" color="000000" size="3">If you can help him<br> to forget himself,<br> get along better with boys<br> and perhaps teach him<br> to keep his hut in order,<br> I ask for nothing else.<br><br></b></font></i></b> <font face="Times New Roman" color="000000" size="3"> Allene Gano Hughes<br> to Lt. Aures<br> Regarding her son<br> Howard R. Hughes, Jr.<br> July, 1914<br><br> </div> <center> <table width="90%"> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">Allene Hughes was concerned about her son when she wrote to Lt. Aures, a stockade leader at Dan Beards <a href="http://www.inquiry.net/images/Beard_Camp_1.jpg" target="_blank"><b>Outdoor School</b></a> in Pennsylvania. It was the month before World War I erupted in Europe, and young Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. - an only child - was twelve years old.</p> <p><a target="_blank" href="images/his.mother.jpg"><b>His mother</b></a> always worried about him. It was a time - before preventive vaccinations were available - when <a href="http://www.drkoop.com/ency/article/001402.htm" target="_blank"><b>infantile paralysis</b></a> (polio) was spreading among American children. Howard, a somewhat sickly child, benefited from his <a target="_blank" href="images/summers.jpg"><b>summers</b></a> at the Outdoor School. He would return home in much better condition than when he left. But at <a target="_blank" href="images/camp.jpg"><b>camp</b></a>, Howard was around other children. Other children had germs.</p> <p>In the summer of 1916, Howards father (<a target="_blank" href="images/hughes1.gif"><b>Howard Robard Hughes, Sr.</b></a>) wrote to <a target="_blank" href="images/Beard_Camp_3.jpg"><b>Dan Beard</b></a>:</p> <blockquote><font face="Times New Roman"><b><i>I thought these clippings [reporting the rapid spread of infantile paralysis] might be of interest as the clippings show how easily the violent germs are carried even by a well person.</i></b></font></blockquote> <p align="justify"><font face="arial, helvetica">Fear of germs, and what they could do to him, had deep - ultimately paralyzing - roots in Howards life.</p> </div> <p align="right"><font size="2"><a href="aviator_ch2.htm">GO TO CHAPTER 2</a></font></p> <p align="center"><font face="arial, helvetica" size="3"><a href="http://www.awesomestories.com/content/about_author.htm" target="_blank"><b>Author: Carole D. Bos, J.D.</b></center></a></p><br> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table>  </body>