WI: Howard Hughes had no OCD?

How different would his career/company be if he didn't have OCD? I would love to know his through his entire life, but mainly up 1960.
 
Maybe he could have made more movies, pushed the envelope on the Hays Code, expanded the golden period of the weak studio system in the 60s(?) and 70s(?)

And yes, it might have been trash, but it would have been good trash, like Stephen King is good trash. And not a lot of high falutin' overwritten, overwrought everything. Rather, a really good story simply told.
 
Now, besides various interesting psychological causes of OCD, there's at least some studies which hint at a physical cause.

For example, in some children maybe PANDAS. One study found that about 50% of children with rapid-onset OCD had PANDAS, and about 50% didn't. This is hypothesized to be where, not the strep bacteria itself, but the antibodies to strep attack the basal ganglia of the brain.

So far, it's only been studied in children and teenagers. In fact, the 'P' stands for 'Pediatric'

But people can have at least relapses of rheumatic heart fever in their 40s (also caused by body's own antibodies to strep). And Sydenham Chorea has been known about for centuries. So, possibly . . .

Some doctors are skeptical about the whole thing, just straight up.
 
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Perhaps without OCD wouldn't get very far?
As someone who's struggled with OCD, let me tell you, a little goes a long way!

some zen thinking and my own casual versions of (?)zen meditation has helped.

And then, if I can wind to a place where it's okay to do the health precaution and also okay not to do it, that's a pretty good place to be.
 
Howard Hughes without trying to buy Presidents?

In 1968, Mr. Hughes was determined to stop nuclear tests near Las Vegas, where he lived. He ordered Mr. Maheu to pay large sums of money to then President Lyndon B. Johnson; Mr. Nixon, who was the Republican Presidential nominee, and Hubert H. Humphrey and Robert F. Kennedy, who were running for the Democratic nomination.

This effort has been recounted before. The payment to Mr. Johnson apparently never took place. Mr. Nixon's friend Bebe Rebozo was given $100,000. Mr. Humphrey was said to have accepted $50,000 in cash, although he denied it before he died. And $25,000 intended for Mr. Kennedy was not received until after he had been assassinated.
 
I really enjoyed the book Hard Landing: The Epic Contest for Power and Profits that Plunged the Airlines into Chaos, by Thomas Petzinger, Jr. The book starts with Charles Lindbergh and by around page 27, it's already up to the mid-70s right before deregulation (the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978).

Most of it takes place after deregulation in the 1980s. There's Bob Crandall at American Airlines, Frank Borman at Eastern. There's union guy Charlie Bryan who quotes scripture, "weapons formed against you will not prosper." All in all, a pretty well put together book with a lot of threads coming together.
https://books.google.com/books?id=G...ing" union weapons "will not prosper"&f=false

The main business innovation was running hub and spokes. For example, a guy was asked, should we de-peak DFW? And he came back and said, no, just the opposite, we should run it even more?

1) Maybe Howard slightly anticipates this and TWA's even bigger, or

2) Howard goes in another interesting direction.
 
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A president of twa in the early 60's who managed to tick off, three very different important people at the same time.
He called the FBI Trigger happy during a skyjacking, thus getting a file from j edgar hoover. He told disability rights activist, and New Jersey attorney general Arthur sills. We don't wait for cripples, when Sills was struggling up a flight of stairs as you had to in those days and refused an offer to fly the Greek delegate to the United nations, because he wasn't interested in fairs from Europeans.
Without his illness, hughes will be smart enough to avoid annoying three power brokers
 
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