Word: derelicts
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...When Harry Chapin Smith, 84, died last fall and was buried in Potter's Field, most of his Brooklyn neighbors assumed that he had been what he appeared to be: a toothless, poverty-stricken derelict, who lived in a one-room hovel and sold odds & ends of junk picked up on nighttime scavenging rounds. Last week the true identity of Harry Smith came to light. The old derelict was a wealthy Harvard man, long respected by his brokers for his canny investments. Total of his estate's assets: about $400,000 in cash, bonds and blue-chip stocks...
Albion denied that Carlsen stayed aboard merely to prevent the ship from becoming a "derelict" whose cargo can be claimed by either the salvager or anyone who cares to board it. If the shipping line had announced its intention to salvage the Flying Enterprise, he asserted, the ship would not have become a "derelict...
Decision Before Dawn mirrors these moods and mentalities in some excellent German players, notably Hildegarde Neff as a lonely derelict of war who has sunk into prostitution, O. E. Hasse as a colonel sternly loyal to his professional creed, Wilfried Seyfert as a virulent SS man. Apart from U.S. occupation troops cast as wartime G.I.'s, the only Americans in the film are Gary Merrill and Richard Base-hart, whose roles as U.S. intelligence officers put them in support of a fine performance by Viennese Actor Werner...
...world. It has broken down the barriers between race and color and environment and cultural background. To the great surgeon with the patient on the operating table it is of secondary importance whether it is a cousin of his wife or the sister of an Oriental potentate or the derelict found by the police the night before...
...world. It has broken down the barriers between race and color and environment and cultural background. To the great surgeon with the patient on the operating table it is of secondary importance whether it is a cousin of his wife or the sister of an Oriental potentate or the derelict found by the police the night before...