People: Past Masters

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 has two shiners, the...

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