Word: drifters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some elemental but red-blooded lines from writers like Marion Hargrove and Phi Beta Kappa (U.C.L.A., '39) Writer-Producer Roy Huggins, who describes Hero Bret Maverick* as "an antihero, a disorganization man, a kind of bum. He doesn't like to be employed. He's a drifter...
17th Century Progress. A brilliantly organized drifter, Ritchard is up at the uncommonly early (for actors) hour of 8 a.m., makes jottings in his "unemotional" diary, breakfasts alone in his elegant West Side apartment, which was decorated for him by Mrs. Oscar Hammerstein II as a sort of tribute to the memory of his late wife. Actress Madge Elliott...
...such pilgrim-the book's narrator -is Andrew Colquhoun, a youngish Scots drifter eager to pluck the heart from Clausen's mystery, write his biography and perhaps thereby come to terms with his own restless nature. Also on the way to Clausen is an odd trio of characters: a tropical tycoon named Zuckermann, who is playing the white man's last rubber in the game of enlightened self-interest; his beautiful and enigmatic secretary. Gemma; and his top research man, a brilliant mixed-blood scientist who secretly aspires to be "a Napoleon of the black masses...
...Francisco's Roosevelt Junior High School near despair. Day after day he would blurt out answers he knew were wrong, was so bored with his lessons that he rarely bothered to do them. His teachers had a name for him: he was just one more "gifted drifter...
...slim volume titled Arsenal sold 26 copies; in his job as a whisky and champagne salesman, he had found less trouble disposing of his wares. Later he took over the family business (building supplies) in his native village near Avignon. It was the war that changed him from a drifter into a dedicated man, and how it happened is the subject of a diary he published under the pen name Hypnos (the god of sleep...