this was psychological in nature, a way to avoid having to socialize. Sent to boarding school, Howard became increasingly unhappy so he asked his parents to buy him a horse, and he spent more time with the animal than with boys his age.? ?Then, when he was sixteen, his mother died during surgery.? She was followed two years later by Howards father.? Understandably, Howard went into a deep depression.? His parents had been his world. All of this could be gleaned from school and hospital records, especially as a school counselor was aware of the psychological problems and had written to the parents about them. A young Howard Hughes, 1938 ? ?? At 18, Howard took over the profitable family business in Houston, which was based on an invention of his fathers that had revolutionized oil drilling worldwide, and finally found something over which he could feel mastery, so he set out to achieve more of it.? ?He married without any romantic involvement and divorced after he went to Hollywood , where he took up flying and developed a passion for moviesa budding industry in the mid-1920s.? In one film he produced, he crashed his plane and was pulled unconscious from the wreck. From this point, a psychologist could ask business associates about Hughes, which Fowler apparently did, adding comments into his report from people who worked with Hughes.? ?It was clear to those who knew him that his ambitions were highto be the richest man alive, to be a