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...driving down Connecticut's broad, tree-lined Merritt Parkway one night last week, a Navy chief petty officer named Franklin Jenson saw an unusual sight : an empty state police car was standing at the side of the road with its big rear warning light flashing rhythmically. He slowed. Then he saw something even stranger: a weak blink of light on the ground near the car. He stopped, got out. A white-faced state trooper was sprawled there in the darkness, working a flashlight button with his thumb, and dying from a bullet wound in his stomach...
...last 20 years, big-dealing Louis Wolfson has built up from scratch an empire with assets he estimates at $100 million plus. Among them: Manhattan's famed building firm of Merritt-Chapman & Scott (Wolfson is chairman), a chain of 21 Florida theaters, Washington's Capital Transit Co., which controls the streetcars and buses in the capital...
...surplus Tampa Shipbuilding Co. Within two years, he and his brothers liquidated it for a profit of $4,000,000. They also liquidated the supply company for another $2,500,000 profit. With wealthy business friends, they organized a "Florida syndicate" to buy control of Merritt-Chapman & Scott. Wolfson, who grew up with Politician Fuller Warren, contributed $100,000 to Warren's successful campaign for governor, and later, on a low competitive bid, won a contract to build a $3,000,000 bridge for the state. But after a furore was raised over Warren's campaign contributions, Wolfson...
...team takes on M.I.T on the Tech grounds at 3:30 p.m. today, and the mediocre Engineers, with a record of two wins, six losses and two ties, won't give even a disheartened Crimson much of a battle. M.I.T. coach Roy Merritt plans to star either Amos Dickson or Bill Teepel, while Stuffy McGinnis will counter with Rafe Webb, who was a last minute search for yesterday's game. ab r h po a e Erinsky 4 0 0 3 3 0 Robinson, rf 4 0 2 3 0 0 Johnson, lb 4 0 2 11 0 0 Walsh...
...Wolfson contributed "in excess of $150,000" to Democrat Fuller Warren's successful campaign in 1948 for governor. Manhattan's Merritt-Chapman & Scott, of which Wolfson is board chairman, now has a $3,588,959 contract building the bridge substructure for Jacksonville's new $50 million expressway. The firm, whose total backlog is $89 million, has many big projects outside Florida, including part of California's $30 million Folsom...