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Some estimated his fortune at $75 to $100 million. One thing everybody was sure of: obscure Harry Hosford was one of the town's richest men. But his name is not in the Directory of Directors, and seldom in a newspaper. Hosford, a lone wolf, cloaked his deals, in secrecy. But there was nothing very secret about his operations in Government bonds...
Scarcely were the terrorists' bodies buried than British troops began patrolling Zion Square in Jerusalem. The British had heard that the Irgun Zvai Leumi would try to hang, from the square's lone tree, two 20-year-old British sergeants it had captured as hostages...
...retired Canadian lumber dealer, Williamson was used to playing a lone hand. After acquiring a Ph.D. in geology at McGill University, he went to South Africa to work for a copper mine in 1934. He quit to roam the veldt in search of diamonds. After he found them (according to one story, a native found a diamond and took him to the site), he settled down to mining...
Lewis Krohn, second year graduate student in the Business School was the lone reclining Sabbath inhabitant of Stillman, and was the target of unlimited professional attention until his solitude was broken early yesterday morning by the arrival of Kendal M. Cole...
...like to take the plunge, he is not convinced of the rightness of being a bourgeois or a communist; in a pathetic scene, he tries to be really incensed over the Spanish War, but his past life of coolness and indecision won't let him, and he remains a lone man, faced with an empty future...