Word: drifter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...buddy's back like a window shade." Accused as the cat with the difference: Negro Bistro Singer Billy (That Old Black Magic) Daniels, 40. Daniels, to whom it was "all a blank," was soon free on $2,500 bond. But the victim, a 33-year-old drifter, slightly wounded in the shoulder, was jugged as a material witness, with bail set at $5,000 (later halved to the amount that sprang Billy). At week's end, Daniels, his local cabaret entertainer's card lifted, hopped off to Hollywood. Before he left, he was asked about rumors...
...find sensible answers for these puzzles, Sir John seems to be the man. Born in Greenock, on Scotland's Firth of Clyde, he "drifted into accountancy," probably because his father was in it. Sir William McLintock, head of Britain's famous Thomson, McLintock firm, soon drafted the "drifter" as his protégé, moved him rapidly up to a partner. During World War II, Morison ran the Ministry of Supply's financial affairs and served on the vital War Damage Commission, which decided how much should be paid to thousands of blitzed British property owners...
...dozens of people and incidents in Mark Twain's books. Huck Finn was Tom Blankenship, the happy, shiftless son of a ne'er-do-well drunk. Sid Sawyer was modeled after Sam's own brother Henry. "Injun Joe," sometimes known as "Injun Aleck," was a drifter from Oklahoma who, according to rumor, had once "somehow lost his interest" in his mother, and hanged her. There really was a cave downriver from Hannibal, too, and Sam himself was once lost in it with a young lady...
...Video Theater (Mon. 8 p.m., CBS). The Irish Drifter, with Pat O'Brien...
Three teams from the varsity ski squad and the Harvard Ski Club will go to the Drifter's Ski Club in Kearsage, New Hampshire, today to compete in the downhill race at nearby Bear Mountain...