Word: flotsam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would swell the Democratic landslide. Fact was that the labor bossism issue was a sleeper and much of the whistling was in the dark. Many a candidate would not sleep peacefully until election night when he saw how the crosscurrents had moved and who had been carried off as flotsam...
Nobody Saw. Planes flew high overhead or off to the side of the square miles of human flotsam, but nobody was looking for Indy survivors, and for 84 hours nobody saw them. When they were spotted, it was by accident. Then rescue measures were swift and effective-the one aspect of the disaster that was a credit to the Navy. But only 316 (15 officers, 301 enlisted men, from a total complement of 1,196) survived...
BEAU CLOWN, by Berthe Grimault (188 pp.; Rinehart; $3), a crawling compost heap of a novel, accepts as normal and comical the sort of horror about which seamy-side Novelist Louis-Ferdinand Céline wrote with fascination. Author Grimault describes a degenerate clan of French peasants and the flotsam that fetches up at their farm-two prostitutes, four U.S. Negro soldiers foraging for sex, and a netful of AWOL lunatics, including a gently demented old clown and a bloody-nailed slug named Chopper (he is obsessed with decapitation). When Chopper is gored by a huge white bull, a litter...
...bean peddler in TV's Jack and the Beanstalk, made some records with Bea Lillie, played all the parts in a recording of Alice in Wonderland, recorded Peter and the Wolf with the Philadelphia Orchestra, did several benefits and filled various speaking engagements. "I simply drift around like flotsam and jetsam," he says with creaks and squeaks in his voice, his sad, pale eyes playing out of a square, pinkish face...
...Inland Steel Co. vice president and director, Leigh Block. Undaunted by such Albright canvases as Into the World There Came a Soul Called Ida, the study of a time-battered prostitute, That Which I Should Have Done I Did Not Do, the portrait of a moldy door, and the flotsam-and-jetsam-cluttered watercolor, Ah God-Herrings, Buoys, the Glittering Sea, Mary Block put her best face forward and hoped. Albright put aside (temporarily) his work in progress of the past twelve years (TIME, Aug. 9, 1954), the still-unfinished, cosmically titled Poor Room-There Is No Time...