Word: shipwrecks
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...Cuttyhunk's case: the island was discovered in 1602 by Englishman Bartholomew" Gosnold. Shakespeare wrote The Tempest in 1611. Both Shakespeare and Gosnold had the same patron: the Earl of Southampton. Cuttyhunkers insist that Shakespeare's account of the shipwreck isle tallied with Gosnold's description of Cuttyhunk. Most Shakespeare authorities think he wrote about Bermuda...
...take the straight-edged pieces that obviously belong on the outside. But even when these are in place all the puzzler may have is a few clouds hanging in a sky. He won't know whether he is working on a picture of a country wedding or a shipwreck...
...modern eye, St. Simeon Stylites is likely to seem a kind of 5th-Century Shipwreck Kelly*-a symbol of ascetic reductio ad absurdum. To that view, his 38-year residence atop a pillar was only a Syrian sideshow that attracted the curious. The vulgar error of a vulgar age, says Father Augustin C. Wand, S.J., in the current American Ecclesiastical Review. "Simeon the Stylite is not a character about whom we Catholics need to be apologetic...
...Alvin ("Shipwreck") Kelly, most publicized of flagpole sitters, who lived on an Atlantic City flagpole for a mere 49 days...
Born. To Brenda Diana Duff Frazier ("Glamor Girl") Kelly, 24, whose raven-haired, cream-smooth beauty helped to make her 1938's No. 1 debutante; and John Sims ("Shipwreck") Kelly, 35, onetime part-owner of professional football's Brooklyn Dodgers: their first child, a daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Brenda Victoria. Weight...