Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LILA WOLF...
...astonishing rise in General Dynamics stock is due to many factors, including the romance of atomic energy (the world's second atomic submarine, General Dynamics' Sea Wolf, is under construction by the company), the prospect of big, new orders for Convair's intercontinental ballistic missile, Atlas, and rumors of new mergers in the works. The most recent rumor, that General Dynamics would merge with destroyer-building Bath Iron Works, was denied by both companies. But Wall Streeters are sure that more, and bigger, mergers are on the way, since Hopkins is always looking for likely prospects...
Portland police decided that the wiring of Smith's car had been an expert job. Two hours later they arrested a suspect: husky, greying Victor Lawrence Wolf, 45, an electrician who lived in an apartment house owned by Mrs. Marjorie Smith. After ten hours of questioning, police charged Wolf and Mrs. Smith with plotting her husband's murder for the sake of his $21,000 life insurance policy. According to Wolf's confession, they were lovers and planned to start life anew in Alaska with the money. He said that Mrs. Smith, who divorced her husband last...
...Wolf stuck to his story. Last month, he said, Mrs. Smith bought him a revolver to shoot her husband, but his nerve failed. Instead, while she locked up the family dog, he ambushed Smith in the garage and tried to beat him to death with a bottle. When Smith recovered, Wolf decided to use dynamite. Last week he went to the Smith home, supposedly to fix up a backyard swing and playground as a birthday present for Susan Smith, who was turning three. Wolf brought ten sticks of blasting dynamite and put them under the front seat of Smith...
LAUGH TILL You CRY, by Wolf Mankowitz (127 pp.; Dutton; $2.50), puts a shipwrecked English drummer on a tropical island and leaves him there when he makes the discovery that he never had it so good. When Ronald Rantz comes ashore, he takes with him his salesman's sample case. His stock in trade: exploding cigars, invisible itching powder, the usual assortment of smoking-car killers that are guaranteed to make you "Laugh Till You Cry." The island, a between-trade-routes speck somewhere near the Caribbean, looks like paradise, but the seemingly innocent natives soon prove...