From the Sister Klaryta Antoszewska Photograph Collection (PH-00352). From Slides #1550 through 1557. Newspaper title text: “Soviet Explodes Atomic Weapon of Intermediate Force Over Asia; Nasser Assails Test Resumption.”

From the Sister Klaryta Antoszewska Photograph Collection (PH-00352). From Slides #1550 through 1557.Newspaper title text: “Powers Pleads Guilty to Spying; Tells Soviet Court, ‘I Am Sorry’; Eisenhower Rebuts Propaganda”. 

Description printed on back of photograph: "Howard Hughes shaking hands with Major General Oscar Westover, Head of the US Air Corps, at a luncheon at the National Press Club. Jesse Jones stands at extreme right with other notables in the center. July 1938."

Howard Hughes leaving his private hangar as he is wished "happy landings" and well wishes by friends before he boards his speedy Lockheed plane at Union Air Terminal in Burbank, California.