Word: wolfish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bought for his radio following; it was clear that he had to keep on singing. It was also clear that a man can't very well burst into song with both guns smoking and his spurs mixed up in a dead heavy; so the primordial, hard-riding, lone-wolfish hero (best personified by Bill Hart) gave way to the more folksy, even mildly urbane type. Gene and Roy Rogers, like their prototypes, turn up in time's nick to liquidate wrongdoers and still ride fast to get there, but they are never the grim-lipped supermen...
...luxurious loony bin with Town & Country interiors, brilliant Psychoanalyst Bergman handles raving patients and wolfish colleagues with equally prim professionalism. But when the institution's new head turns out to be tall, tousled, handsome Gregory Peck, she astonishes herself and the audience by turning up in his rooms on a highly unprofessional midnight visit. Since most of the medical staff seem to be only about two jumps ahead of the screaming meemies, no one pays much attention when "Psychiatrist" Peck begins to twitch and grimace over a few fork marks on the tablecloth. But Analyst Bergman quickly diagnoses...
...plot machinery starts whirring when Alan Quinton (Joseph Gotten) writes love letters for a casually wolfish friend, and falls in love with the recipient (Jennifer Jones). After that, all hell breaks loose. The girl, in love with the letters, marries the man she thinks has written them; the husband is murdered. The girl, suspected of the murder, comes down with acute amnesia. Alan realizes that his own deceit has brought on the murder and the woe, and that if the girl recovers her memory, she will probably lose her mind. Despite all these causes for alarm, he marries her. Sure...
Others shared his urge. Harvard's "Boaty" Sturgis, who wore a pink tie and reminded people of "a wild night in a florist's shop," trailed Estelle like a mooning spaniel. Wolfish Hugo Zachias, who had made a mint of money selling scrap iron to Japan, talked her into a weekend at his Spanish villa on Long Island. There were also jaded Bill Priest, who wrote scintillating advertisements for jewelers ("Evenings of wonder, these evenings of betrothal time"), and Croupier Joe Heeney, who had learned to hate race horses ("he had long since passed the point where...
Male Quail. In Gloucester, N.J., police investigated women drivers' complaints about wolfish whistles at a certain intersection, flushed a nearby covey of quail...