Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ENGINE CHARLIE" WILSON, ex-president of General Motors, will take deep plunge into shipping business because he believes another sea boom is coming. For several million dollars, Oswego Shipping Corp. (75% owned by Wilson and two friends) bought out Marine Transport Lines, which owns or operates 60 ships, controls one of world's biggest fleets of specialized vessels...
...SUMMER PLACE (369 pp.)-Sloan Wilson-Simon & Schuster...
...answers to these and sundry other questions are offered in a fictional session of bland man's buff by Sloan Wilson, the man who did more for gray flannel suits than Brooks Brothers. The novel's key setting is Pine Island, Me., a summer retreat and a kind of "perverted Garden of Eden from which one was expelled for the sin of poverty." Among the unexpelled nouveau poor are the Hunters, who eke out their stay as genteel innkeepers. Fortyish Bart Hunter is an existentially minded drunkard whose most cutting insult is to call someone "cheerful." His disillusioned...
Later that afternoon, they showed up at the Open Air Market. Clerk Adrian Wilson stood behind a counter. Customer Ed Kenney was there. So was Owner Floyd Blair, who was repairing a friend's pistol. Asked Robert Smith: "Is that a real gun?" Replied Blair...
...real gun too," he said, "and I know how to use it." First, he jerked his thumb toward the cash register. Nobody moved. Then Robert fired. With scarcely a moment's pause, the boy shot all three men, killing Owner Blair, wounding Kenney and Wilson. Giving up the thought of robbery, the boys fled. David ran home, after firing his gun aimlessly in the street, and was found by police as he sat on his grandmother's lap, crying. Robert hid in an abandoned cotton gin, six blocks from the grocery. The police got him out by dropping...