... be covered by a Kleenex. In addition, as a test pilot Hughes was involved in numerous plane crashes that some researchers presume resulted in brain injury. The most serious accident occurred in 1946 when an XF-11 reconnaissance plane he was testing for the Air Force crashed, leaving him with massive injuries that caused him pain for the rest of his life. Hughes ... of Hughes' manipulation of the stock market, his bribery of American presidents, his secret wartime combat mission under the aegis of President Roosevelt, his friendships with Cary Grant and Ernest Hemingway, his behind-locke...

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... of coal miners in the Lancashire town of Wigan. After seeing their struggles, he began to take an active political part, and when the Spanish Civil War he joined Ernet Hemingway and others in going to Spain to take part. There he fought on the side of the Republican Loyalists and was wounded twice. He had just recovered from his second ... Animal Farm, and the next year Orwell and his wife adopted a son. In 1945 his wife died during an operation, and he went off to Europe to be a reporter. In 1946 he attempted to settle in the Scottish island of Jura, where he stated his last book, 1984...

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