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...Florida real estate, spent many a lean year ("I saw the time when I couldn't pay my grocery bill") until World War II found him with an interest in the war-rich Tampa Shipbuilding Co. In it, he made a lasting alliance with Florida Industrialist Louis Wolfson, 40, who had made millions from a grab bag of enterprises, ranging from ships, bridges, movie theaters, and plumbing supplies to selling scrap iron.* For $2,000,000 in 1945, he scooped up a surplus shipyard which cost the Government $20 million, liquidated it and cleared more than...
...Broadwater and Wolfson saw their big chance to parlay their stakes. North American Co., the famed holding company pyramid built by Harrison Williams (TIME, Jan. 21), was under court order to sell its 45.6% controlling interest in Capital Transit, which runs all the streetcars and buses in Washington, D.C. The stock, which had paid only a 50? dividend in 1948, was selling for less than $20 a share. Broadwater & friends bought all 109,458 shares owned by North American at $20 apiece, with Wolfson putting up almost half of the $2,189,160 required. Broadwater and seven others raised...
...Month of Sundays," a new musical based on a comedy by Victor Wolfson, has to do with the machinations of an amiable old excursion boat skipper, who goes to rather bizarre lengths to keep his condemned ferry from being converted into a garbage scow. After two hours with his passengers one can be pardoned for wondering why he doesn't just turn the damn thing over to the Sanitation Department...
...Semitic Department also offers history courses by top scholars. Department Chairman Robert H. Pfeiffer's Religion of Israel, and courses taught by Harry A. Wolfson, Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature, are highly recommended by students...
Pride's Crossing (by Victor Wolfson; produced by T. Edward Hambleton) penetrates a stately New England mansion to the tempestuous life within. There, out of a diseased respect for respectability, an aristocratic matron (Mildred Dunnock) has lived with her husband and his spitfire stable-girl mistress (Tamara Geva). There, after the husband dies and leaves half the house to the wildcat, the widow lives on with her still. The spitfire's son, the widow's son, her son's son and a governess also inhabit the house where, between heart attacks and thunderstorms, the tying...