Word: shipwrecks
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...favorite Gallowhur dream at the moment is to Puratize $1 bills-but he has a new idea almost every day. Since, in such a well-ordered world, shipwreck would be almost unthinkable, he can afford to be calm about the future of Sunstill...
...newly published British Government pamphlet, called A Guide to the Preservation of Life at Sea after Shipwreck, sells for fourpence in London and tells in simple, sometimes grim language the personal lessons learned in World Sea War II. Sample lessons...
...foot flagpole near Washington, up out of limbo shinnied the Daffy Decade's champion flagpole sitter, Aloysius Anthony ("Shipwreck") Kelly (see cut), who settled himself for a four-day perch, said he was going to try to get into the Navy when he came down. Durable old Walter William ("Pudge") Heffelfmger, 74 (see cut), spectacular Yale football guard of the '90s, wheeled out the high-wheeled bike he had ridden in his youth, unsentimentally handed it over to scrap collectors. Oil-rationed citizens all over the nation worried about the winter, but in long-limbed Cinemactress Loretta Young...
...childhood. As a first novel (winner of the Avery Hopwood Award) it is mature and thoughtful, except in technique. In it drinks are always "refreshing," blouses are always "dainty." The story accumulates as undramatically as polyps on a coral reef, but in the end it makes a pretty fair shipwreck...
Into her majority and with it some $3,900,000 came Brenda Diana Duff Frazier Kelly, onetime queen of the Manhattan glamor debs, now queen of a triplex apartment with Husband John ("Shipwreck") Kelly. Last week at least two of the newspapers that used to publicize all her doings in café society published the fact that her chief interest now, besides keeping house, is "having a family...