And because Mr. Burns gets blamed, without much nuance, for his failure to contain inflation, Mr. Hughes thinks that people miss the possible virtues of his more complicated view of price ...

Mr. Dummar, who made international headlines and inspired the film “Melvin and Howard” (1980) with claims that Hughes had bequeathed him more than $150 million for his act of kindness, died ...

He said that man was Howard Hughes. Melvin Dummar owned a gas station at the time, and produced a copy of the will he said Mr. Hughes had written. Courts ruled it a fraud, but Mr. Dummar had his ...