Word: wolfing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Skipper Ludwig, a long, lean, lone-wolf operator who speaks softly and seldom, sailed to his riches through heavy seas. Born in South Haven, Mich., he started as a marine engine mechanic in his teens. At 27 he bought a small surplus oil tanker for use in the East Coast trade. When it blew up accidentally in 1926, Ludwig was nearly killed, his small company almost wrecked. But Ludwig recovered, raised credit to buy three more tankers, expanded his fleet further by chartering his tankers to oil and steel companies, borrowing against the charter to build or buy more tankers...
...residents tell us it's all right to take them out to the cemetery when they're dead," says the Rev. Harry Wolf, director of Detroit's Luther Haven, located in a busy shopping area. "But in the meantime they want to stay near the activity of life." Adds Director Frank C. Selfridge of Evanston's James C. King Home: "They're not interested in the birds and the bees. They want to see the world go by." Doctors approve moving the old people downtown because it is a morale booster that staves off loneliness...
...Lone Wolf. For Mike Benedum it was also the capper on as fabulous a career as the fabled oil industry has ever seen. He has had a hand in virtually every major U.S. oilfield, and wound up with a personal fortune estimated at something like $250 million.* "I've always been a lone wolf," says Benedum. "I started as one and I'm finishing as one. I may be the last "of the breed...
...plug to another by his Mousketeers, who wound up the big sales convention with a tasteless routine on top of a giant birthday cake, plugging a movie called Rainbow Road to Oz. Peter Pan Peanut Butter interrupted a fetching cartoon depiction of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, which Disney dragged out of his attic of past hits for a commercial on its crunchy product. Even Alice in Wonderland got helplessly involved in the selling melee: "Was it the smile on my Cheshire cat," asks Alice, "or the smile on my Jello...
...aunt, put in charge of the boy because his parents are unsolid citizens who ragtag about the countryside peddling neckties. A mightily mundane soul, the aunt has lofty plans for Gaspard-was not one of his ancestors mayor of Lominval, and another chief of the town's wolf-exterminating brigade? But the never-never land claims the boy; sent into the forest to gather mushrooms, he is soon lost to Lominval and launched on a mad, careering plunge of adventure...