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Died. Herbert Lee Pratt, 73, grouse-shooting oil multimillionaire, onetime Socony-Vacuum Board Chairman; of a liver ailment; in Manhattan. Beginning his empire-building career in 1895 as a clerk in Standard Oil, he became a U.S. labor-relations pioneer by pushing pensions, insurance, shorter hours for 45,000 Standard employes...
...less, post-office patrons may now buy a simplified postal money order in dollar denominations, paste on stamps for odd cents. Purchasers write in the name of the creditor and drop the order in the mail. Gone is the bother of writing out applications, waiting for the clerk to labor over the old form. Flat-rate cost...
Sorry, Sorry. In Gilbertville, Mass., when John Lucier huffed into the town clerk's office to protest the unauthorized sale of a piece of land on which he had been paying taxes for the last 20 years, the clerk checked his records, found that Citizen Lucier had never owned the land...
Hearts and Flowers. In Denver, a hold up man, removing $120 from a local hotel, admonished the impatient clerk: "Give me a break - I got a sick mother...
Judge Adlow refused to agree that Erskine Caldwell's novel Tragic Ground was an obscene book and dismissed charges against the bookstore clerk who sold it. He went further. He found nothing shocking in a scene in which a female character is allowed to see a man stripped to the waist. "Do you think anybody would be astounded to hear that?" he cried. Then, turning to the detective on the stand, he asked, "Have you read Anthony Adverse?" The detective had not. "That," said the Judge, "is the trouble with the police department. They haven...