Word: wolfe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Disney's setting of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, featuring a wolf whose gullet looks like something out of Dante; a cat which, in a moment of terror, has an all-claws resemblance to a brier bush; and a cute little feeble-minded duck named Sonia...
...what little money he had left. He slept in public parks, took up with raffish friends, read occult works, underwent what he later described as "mystical, psychic" experiences. For a time he tried gold mining in the Canadian backwoods, and discovered at least the atmosphere later used in Running Wolf and The Wendigo. In Manhattan he made eau-de-cologne, reported for the Sun and the Times, learned something of the "accumulated horror" of the lower East Side...
RICHARD C. WOLF...
Whistling Wolf. Smiling reminiscently, Mrs. Malcolmson told how the chunky, bull-necked fighter pilot had acted when he saw her for the first time in Bombay, India. "He let out a wolflike whistle, started toward me, tripped over a rug and landed with his arms around my knees." Mrs. Malcomson was not charmed. But when she boarded the S.S. Brazil to be evacuated to New York in 1942, Pappy was aboard too, armed with soft words and a case of Scotch. When she got on a westbound train, Pappy turned up again. "I fell in love with...
...partly on skill: he knows cold every comedy trick that vaudeville and burlesque, those hardest of taskmasters, can teach. But his success rests equally on personality. He is the little man who is a little mad; the fellow who, leering behind painted specs or grr-r-ring like a wolf, seems ready to leap at a woman or over a wall. Meanwhile, he remains in frantic, if aimless motion. There are more explosive comics (Durante, for one) than Bobby Clark; but none in whom so much seems just about to explode...