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Though Wolfson's personal fortune, once estimated at more than $75 million, has shriveled considerably, he still owns some $6,400,000 worth of Merritt-Chapman shares, a large horse-breeding farm near Ocala and an interest in a Jacksonville movie and television firm. Wolfson himself suffered a heart attack in 1966. His wife died last year of cancer. If both appeals fail, Wolfson still will have to serve a minimum of ten months...
...immigrant junk dealer, St. Louis-born Wolfson rose to prominence during the '50s by expanding Merritt-Chapman & Scott, a heavy-construction company, into shipbuilding, paint making and chemicals as an early conglomerate. His unsuccessful attempt in 1955 to win control of Montgomery Ward won him a reputation as a controversial corporate raider. Later he managed to become the largest stockholder in American Motors Corp., which was then headed by George Romney, now Secretary of Housing and Urban Development...
...Merritt-Chapman ran into a series of financial reverses and was already on the way to liquidation when a federal grand jury indicted Wolfson in 1966 for his sale of stock in Continental Enterprises Inc., a Jacksonville theater-management company. As controlling stockholder, Wolfson should have registered his shares first with the Securities and Exchange Commission, a requirement of which he pleaded ignorance. In addition to the one-year sentence, Wolfson drew a $100,000 fine. He is also appealing a second 18-month term (and a $32,000 fine), which resulted from his conviction last year for perjury...
...Chapman missed his free throw, Harvard cleared quickly and sophomore Joe Stanislaw, in the game for Gallagher, passed to George Yates underneath for a layup. Frye missed a driving layup, Harvard got the ball and another sophomore, Jay Noble, drove the length of the court for a difficult layup from the right baseline...
...defensive baseline set up Dover for an icing bucket to make it a seven-point margin with 22 seconds left. Harvard Cornell Waickowski 7 Calderone 11 Gallagher 17 Otto 4 Hardy 13 Frye 23 Dover 15 Schwarzkopf 13 Gustavson 12 Esdaile 15 Janczewski 10 Witkoski 5 Noble 6 Chapman 3 Yates 4 Lubbers 3 Stanislaw...