Word: shipwrecks
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Died. Alvin ("Shipwreck") Kelly, sixtyish, self-styled "Luckiest Fool in the World," who enjoyed a brief celebrity in the frivolous '20s by sitting for days on a 13-inch disk atop flagpoles (his record: 49 days and one hour on a pole on Atlantic City's Steel Pier in 1930); of a heart attack, while walking on a sidewalk with a relief check in his pocket and a scrapbook of old press clippings under his arm; in Manhattan...
...marriage lasted better than six weeks, but after four years trouble blew. Desi kept moving about the country with his band, and Lucille, when not making pictures, mostly sat home alone. Their marriage was drifting on the rocks, and only World War II averted immediate shipwreck. Desi refused a commission in the Cuban army and was drafted into the U.S. infantry. He was moved on to Special Services, and spent much of the war shepherding USO troupes from one base to another...
Mara Maru (Warner) is the name of a luxury yacht from which Errol Flynn, a deepsea diver, is trying to retrieve a million dollars in gems from the China Sea. Despite assault & battery, murder, a shipwreck, a typhoon and chases through catacombs and jungles, he succeeds in salvaging the treasure and Ruth Roman, too. Neither Errol's deeds of derring-do nor some vigorous direction can salvage the farfetched scenario...
...Rome, after a separation from her husband John ("Shipwreck") Kelly, Brenda Frazier Kelly, 30, No. 1 café society queen a decade ago, sounded a warning to her successors: being a glamour girl is "the worst thing that can happen to you . . . It's all so superficial. It means nothing." Besides: "Nobody is interested in an ex-glamour girl...
...loved to watch Tarzan hurtling from bough to bough, keening his apelike jungle call. Now, a Soviet film introduction makes it plain, Tarzan may safely be admired again. After all, says the preface, though he was the child of a rich Englishman, he was the only survivor of a shipwreck and was nurtured by apes, and so was "uncorrupted by bourgeois civilization...