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Article: Wild man stalks the quiet corner

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October 1, 1996
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As the groom and stableboys filed quietly into the room of the small country hospital to see the crazy man they knew as Wild Man Crowley, he looked up through the haze of painkiller and knew his luck had run a little short. He had bungee jumped into a river gorge in Vermont, hurtled down a slope on one ski to win a night's lodging in a small inn in New Hampshire and braved the backwoods of Massachusetts on a motorcycle, all in search of something he had yet to put a name to.

On August 5, 1996, 50,000 catalogs mailed o households in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island introduced the world to the adventures of Wild Man Crowley. Filled with clothes, shoes, and accessories designed to ...

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