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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: First There Were Three | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Apr. 20, 1942 | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tropical Forecast | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dongs & Oo-Wahs | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

...government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Through With Love | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

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