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...immigrant junk dealer, St. Louis-born Wolfson rose to prominence during the '50s by expanding Merritt-Chapman & Scott, a heavy-construction company, into shipbuilding, paint making and chemicals as an early conglomerate. His unsuccessful attempt in 1955 to win control of Montgomery Ward won him a reputation as a controversial corporate raider. Later he managed to become the largest stockholder in American Motors Corp., which was then headed by George Romney, now Secretary of Housing and Urban Development...
...Merritt-Chapman ran into a series of financial reverses and was already on the way to liquidation when a federal grand jury indicted Wolfson in 1966 for his sale of stock in Continental Enterprises Inc., a Jacksonville theater-management company. As controlling stockholder, Wolfson should have registered his shares first with the Securities and Exchange Commission, a requirement of which he pleaded ignorance. In addition to the one-year sentence, Wolfson drew a $100,000 fine. He is also appealing a second 18-month term (and a $32,000 fine), which resulted from his conviction last year for perjury...
...winners of the four awards were selected by a committee of five persons, including the coaching staff--Brooks, Merritt and Harold Miroff...
Assistant coach Benn Merritt presented the Crimson's star diver with the Stowell Trophy, "given to the senior who through perseverance, diligence, and untiring self-sacrifice, has most improved during his collegiate career...
...Merritt is much more optimistic about this year. "We should be a heck of a lot higher than we've been for some time," he said. The assistant coach feels the team could finish third or fourth among the nine Eastern League teams...