Word: wolfe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kenneth Wolf, II, expects to have his Ph.D. in chemistry when he is 16. He will probably get it, too. At Cleveland's Western Reserve University he leads mathematics and organic chemistry classes full of students years older than he is. His classmates at first kidded him relentlessly, especially about girls, but finally Kennie told them off: "The subject of girls becomes interesting only when the body matures," he explained. "Mine hasn't. It will later...
Kennie's intellectual, Russian-born parents are both leftish lawyers. During World War I, Father Wolf defended Eugene Debs and other "seditious" characters. Little Kennie first amazed his parents at four months-by speaking a whole sentence. Just after his first birthday he tackled a first-grade reader. When he was 22 months old, his mother heard a Liszt air coming from downstairs. She thought Kennie had started the player piano, but she found the baby pounding out the melody himself...
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf...
...passenger-cargo ships, cram-full of servicemen, war stuffs and civilians on war missions, started eastward across the Atlantic in early February. Somewhere at sea, U-boats, probably using wolf-pack tactics, picked them up, kept snapping at their keels. By night, a torpedo sank one of the ships; four days later, the other was sunk. Each ship went down in less than 30 minutes, Some lives were saved. This week Washington, announcing the sinkings, also announced the death toll: more than...
Bishop James De Wolf Perry of Rhode Island made Bell an honorary canon of St. John's Cathedral, Providence. But of late years he has steered clear of parochial duties. Bell offends some listeners by his acid speech, Socialist ideas and condescending manner. He also lost a great deal of his popularity in Britain by constant gibes at imperialism...