Billy Wolfe

Billy Wolfe

William Harrison “Billy” Wolfe (July 4, 1896 – March 7, 1963) was a professional wrestling promoter who was active from the 1930s to the 1950s. Wolfe was the husband and manager of Mildred Burke and ran a traveling troupe of women wrestlers alongside her.

Read more about Billy Wolfe:  Early Life, Relocation To Kansas City, Marriage To Mildred Burke, Controversy Over Competing Promotions, Discrediting Mildred Burke, Death and Legacy

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    “How old is she, Billy boy, Billy boy?
    How old is she, charming Billy?”
    Past six, past seven,
    Past twenty and eleven,
    She’s a young thing, and cannot leave her mother.”
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    On Wall Street he and a few others—how many?—three hundred, four hundred, five hundred?—had become precisely that ... Masters of the Universe.
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