Word: driftwood
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Medical examiner Joseph DiClerico said the marks may have been caused by driftwood. At first, the police accepted Mrs. Bridges' death as suicide, but later learned she was an excellent swimmer. Her husband and friends say she had no reason to commit suicide. Also, witnesses claim they saw a blue Cadillac convertible similar to Mrs. Bridges, with a man and woman in it, near the scene of the crime...
...tweedy, pipe-smoking, 43-year-old who still looks rather like a college boy, Eames designs other things besides chairs. He works with three admiring young assistants in a studio littered with kites, machine tools, Indian relics, driftwood and desert plants, all of which help give him ideas for new designs. At one time or another, Eames has tackled everything from movie sets to a molded plywood splint used by the Navy during the war ("A forerunner of the furniture," says Eames, "because it supported the body and was sympathetic...
...spun, over and capsized at the start, several ran into driftwood and tore their hulls. Some quit with engine trouble, others gave up out of sheer exhaustion. Ordinary citizens would want a stout reward for taking the punishment the river men take, but the marathon's prizes-an automobile, a television set and a cup-would be penny ante on a third-rate radio jackpot. The pilots of the cockleshells that whined their way down the Hudson were doing...
Last week the Beverly Hills Hall of Art opened with the first "Movie Stars Art Exhibit": 122 works (oils, watercolors, ceramics, arrangements of driftwood;-all for sale by sealed bid, proceeds to the United Nations Appeal for Children...
...purely magic masks were past history. The Museum's leopard-like Devil .Dancer (see cut) resembles some still in use in Ceylon. And the Eskimo King of the Salmon (see cut), a driftwood disc which looked like neither fish, flesh nor fowl, was but one face of a still-living...