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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...
...thin, cold rain, letters poured down on every Government office that deals with defense, from the Department of Agriculture to the White House itself. The letters came from farmers, businessmen, little people of all kinds-victims of the biggest production boom in U.S. history. Some of their complaints were trivial, some were serious. But the thing they complained of was always the same: shortages...
Actually, precedent or no precedent, the announcement that photographers will be permitted to be present would be trivial enough under ordinary circumstances, and it would probably have been included in some general release about Commencement Day, but the release was issued separately, and must have followed on the heels of some information received by the University which made it obligatory that they admit photographers to the Quadrangle...
Last week a small orchestra sat on the Town Hall stage, with most of the principal saints in evening dress, the chorus in monkish robes. After seven years Virgil Thomson's tunes still sounded engaging, well-made, occasionally trivial. The most charming aria was still that sung by St. Ignatius: "Pigeons on the grass alas. Short longer grass short longer shorter yellow grass," etc. But Four Saints in Three Acts still owed a lot to its original Cellophane...
...skillful use of bacteriophages, low-grade infections often are rendered trivial; acute infections may be aborted; deep-seated lesions may heal without drainage; and desperate conditions may be caused to heal in a surprising manner...