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...Alvin ("Shipwreck") Kelly, 51, No. 1 flagpole-sitter of the trivial '20s, has been spending his Sundays in a Connecticut jail for drunken driving. The arrangement keeps him from losing his steeplejack jobs. Of Brenda Frazier's ex-footballer "Shipwreck" Kelly, Alvin says: "I guess there's plenty of room for two of us as long as he don't go climbin' any poles." ∙ ∙ Racing Driver Kelly Carl Petillo, winner of the Indianapolis speedways in 1935, was charged with "suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon" on a Los Angeles cop. Petillo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Past Masters | 8/25/1941 | See Source »

Married. Glamor Girl Brenda Diana Duff Frazier, 20; and John Sims Kelly, 31, onetime pro football player whom the bride prefers to call "Jack" rather than "Shipwreck"; in her mother's Manhattan apartment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 7, 1941 | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

Brenda Diana Duff Frazier, 20, perennial Glamor Girl No. 1, finally decided to wed her longtime escort, socialite Insuranceman John Sims ("Shipwreck") Kelly, 31, onetime pro football player. Brenda, whose allowance has been $1,000 a week, said they would live on Ship's insurance commissions, at least until she comes into her $3,500,000 next year. He gave her a diamond-paved cabochon emerald ring. She said they would live obscurely. Dancers Tony and Renee de Marco seemed split for good when Renee left Manhattan last week, bound for "Florida ... or Reno." Maritally separated since 1938, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Hearts & Thistles | 6/30/1941 | See Source »

...congregations. Therefore, she will acquiesce in a definition of morality so one-sided that it has deformed the very meaning of the word to sexual offences. And yet, if every man living were to sleep in his neighbor's bed, it could not bring the world so near shipwreck as that pride, that avarice and that intellectual sloth which the church has forgotten to write in the tale of its capital sins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: For a New Society | 1/20/1941 | See Source »

...gets dunking testimonials from unlikely bigwigs like Novelist Pearl Buck. Said she: "If Mayor LaGuardia and Hitler only would get together and dunk a couple of doughnuts, they would see life through the same rose-colored glasses." Standing on his head atop Manhattan's Chanin Building, Flagpole Sitter Shipwreck Kelly ate 13 doughnuts one Friday the 13th...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Dollars for Doughnuts | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

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