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...experience of the orthopedic surgeon, no victim of poliomyelitis should ever become a derelict; to him even the greatly disabled and deformed paralytic may be much improved and brought back to a high percentage of bodily, of social, of economic efficiency; moreover he knows of no reasonable age or duration since the attack in which means of ameliorating the condition of the cripple cannot be used to the victim's advantage. The writer, because he finds even in the medical profession very inadequate understanding of the possibilities and the methods of attaining these results, endeavors to point...
...closer inspection, the speck turned out to be a boat, the size of those usually seen moored at yacht-club landings. To suggestions that he take the tiny craft in tow, rescue her crew, the Black Gull's captain, Leonard Frisco, explained why this was inadvisable. No derelict, the boat was the German yawl Stoertebeker. With five other minuscule vessels, which left Newport a fortnight before, she was bound for Bergen, Norway, in a transatlantic sailing race...
...cold night in 1931, his shabby clothing buttoned tightly about his short, diabetic body, a derelict named Driscoll lay on the floor of a boxcar in Seattle's railroad yards. For days he had hunted work. Weary, he had turned to bread lines, soup kitchens, listened to soap-box orators on corners of the Skidroad.* Deep into his dulled consciousness sank the speakers' catchphrases, their shouts of plenty for everyone, taunts at Big Business, cries that Capitalists were to blame for Derelict Driscoll's wrinkled belly...
...hunched in the drafty boxcar that bitter night Derelict Driscoll thought of railroad tycoons in their private cars, mansions, soft beds. He bundled some oil waste between the car's walls, struck a match. Safely out of the yards, he watched the flames redden the sky. He felt better...
...TIME is derelict in reportorial duty when alleging cons without such pros...