NWA Member: Billy Wolfe Admitted to Organization: December 1949 Columbus Office: Park Hotel, 465 S. High Street Phone Number: Capital 4-9257 (1955) Wolfe trained Mildred Burke, Nell Stewart, Connie Ethier In late 1949, Pinkie George wrote a letter to Sam Muchnick in St. Louis and brought up Billy Wolfe's possible membership in the NWA. He suggested that Wolfe be admitted, and a majority of the organization believed so also. "They feel thats a good way to control some of his actions by having him as a member," George wrote about Wolfe. "Besides, we'll need the doe," George concluded. Muchnick sent a message to Eddie Quinn in Montreal on January 27, 1953, telling him that the "Burke and Billy Wolfe deal was closed here yesterday, and she turned over $30,000 cash to him. The money is not wrestling money - she borrowed it from some banking people in Columbus, Ohio." Research by Tim Hornbaker December 17, 2010 |
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