Word: wolfe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Help from the Army. Most of the passengers were too badly hurt to be carried through the bush to nearby Wolf Lake, where PBY planes were waiting. And no plane could land closer. Only helicopters could do the trick, and the nearest helicopters were 1,175 miles away in the U.S. At Elizabeth City, N.C., the Army dismantled a helicopter, flew the parts to New York. Another helicopter was waiting at LaGuardia Field. Both were loaded into C-54s and flown to Gander, reassembled...
...Even a helicopter could not land on the muskeg. While the helicopter hovered a Navy PBY dropped a load of planks. Then the helicopter fluttered down on an improvised platform. The survivors, in basket stretchers, were lashed to the undercarriage of the helicopters, flown to the PBYs waiting on. Wolf Lake. The PBYs flew them to the hospital in Gander...
Googoo, Gobgoo, Googoo. During the German occupation, some of the surrealists escaped labor battalions by pretending insanity. One howled like a wolf, another barked like a dog, a third capered about like a ballet dancer, gurgling "googoo, googoo, googoo!" But François joined the Resistance, carried messages and dropped underground pamphlets...
...particularly pretty girls. That was how he met his second and present wife, tiny, blonde Flora Dancy, 24, of Clinton, Ind., whom he brought back to Mexico last fall when he returned to run Uncle Ezequiel's presidential campaign. Says Flora of husband Mario: "Yes, a great wolf...
Last week the great wolf was in a political trap. The police announced, after he had been missing four days, that they held Lasso as a confessed conspirator in a plot to kill President-elect Miguel Alemán and his prospective chief minister, Colonel Carlos I. Serrano...