Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Very few people have high regard for the timber wolf, an animal popularly supposed to eat up unwary citizens who get lost in the snow. This attitude saddens Lee Smits, a Detroit news commentator and probably the best friend the timber wolf has. Smits, who blames the wolf's lowly social position on "the Red Riding Hood legend," feels that more people ought to be concerned by the fact that the timber wolf of the eastern U.S. is well on the way to extinction...
...prevent the disappearance of what he terms "an interesting carnivore," Smits has taken the lead in urging the creation of a timber wolf sanctuary on Isle Royale, a rugged, heavily wooded tract in Lake Superior, 48 miles from the northernmost Michigan mainland. Last week, in an attempt to put the Smits plan into execution, the national park service brought to the island four young timber wolves. Three of them had been raised in a zoo, and the fourth, a tawny grey male named Jimmy, was reared by Lee Smits and his wife Peggy. (The Smitses, who turned Jimmy over...
...loud, sustained wolf whistle has risen from the nation's barbershops and garages because of Marilyn's now historic calendar pose, in which she lies nude on a strip of crumpled red velvet. Uneasy studio executives begged her last January to deny the story. But Marilyn believes in doing what comes naturally. She admitted she posed for the picture back in 1949 to pay her overdue rent. Soon she was wading in more fan letters than ever. Asked if she really had nothing on in the photograph, Marilyn, her blue eyes wide, purred: "I had'the radio...
Schumann: Dichterliebe: Wolf: Four Songs (Gérard Souzay; Jacqueline Bonneau, pianist; London). Souzay's melting baritone blends intimate crooning and masculine vigor in performances of firm conviction. Recording: mellow...
...education? The answer is yes, mainly because of the brave battle for academic freedom waged by Theater Arts Professor Ronald Reagan. "Hot Garters Gertie," as the bump & grind artist is known, is saved from expulsion when Professor Reagan threatens to expose Board of Trustees Chairman Roland Winters as a wolf in sheepskin clothing who once gave Gertie a mink coat...