Word: shipwreck
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Wajda was alone on the raft. Once he sighted a distant ship, dully watched it merge again with the sea. At last, on the 45th day, the water showed streaks of mud that mean only one thing in shipwreck language: land-and help. And help soon came. Said Wajda: "I almost fainted...
High-climbing Alvin ("Shipwreck") Kelly, No. 1 flagpole-sitter of the Daffy Decade, went to a hospital in Englewood, N.J., with injuries suffered in a fall of ten feet from a flagpole at Palisades Amusement Park...
Last week Tropical opened with unprecedented fanfare. The Whitneys, the Wideners, the Woodwards and even Mrs. Shipwreck Kelly (Brenda Frazier) rubbed elbows with the turf's tinhorn sports. Reason: Florida's "friendly track" was recently purchased by a group of polo-playing, hunt-club socialites headed by Baltimorean Henry L. Straus. M.F.H., and the millionaire Munns (Gurnee and Charles Alexander) of Washington, Palm Beach and Paris...
...collection of primitive music survived a shipwreck and an automobile smashup before it was brought home by a footloose family-bronzed, youngish Bruce and Sheridan Fahnestock, and their plump, jolly mother...
...government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck...