Word: wolfe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Ellsworth ("Sonny") Wisecarver, 17, tabloid-trumpeted wolf cub, who at 14 ran off with an unmarried mother seven years his senior ("You take Sinatra . . . I'll take Sonny"), ran off again at 16 with another matron of 25 ("an interlude of golden ecstasy"); and Betty Zoe Reber, 17, a plump, Mormon high-school girl; he for the second time, she for the first; in St. George, Utah...
Died. The Right Rev. James De Wolf Perry, 75, onetime (1930-37) Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in America,* for 35 years the Bishop of Rhode Island; of a heart ailment; in Summerville...
...basketball game saw Branford, sparked by "Wolf" Larson, overcome a 17 to 9 deficit at halftime to knot the count with six minutes to play. But the Bellboys' modified zone defense, which kept Mike Post or Dana Bresnahan on Larsen while placing the remaining four players in a diamond formation, broke the back of the Branford attack, and the Bellboys won going away...
...surprise award of the 1946 Nobel literary prize to an old German named Hermann Hesse will seem more of a surprise to those who read this book of his. Steppenwolf (The Wolf of the Steppes), first printed in Germany in 1927 and in the U.S. in 1929, has long been out of print, and is now brought out again to cash in on the Nobel publicity. It is a repellent example of that beery old thing, German Romanticism, being sick in the last ditch before Naziism...
...first job?" Guessing the answer is a favorite parlor game for educators. Last week Dean William F. Russell of Teachers College (Columbia) added his answer. Said he: "The first job of education for democracy at the moment is to rip the sheep's clothing off the wolf-the Bear-and to let Soviet Communistic dictatorship stand revealed to the world in its true light...