Word: platt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When five children of Orange Picker Allan Platt first appeared at the white public school in Mount Dora, Fla., Principal D. D. Roseborough suspected that there might be trouble. Skins of some of the children were so brown that pupils and their parents wondered whether the children might be Negroes. Principal Roseborough quickly reassured them: he had checked in Holly Hill, S.C., where the Platts lived last year, found that though they had Indian blood, they were officially listed as white. That seemed to satisfy most everyone-except Mount Dora's beefy, dictatorial Sheriff Willis McCall...
Shape of a Nose. He called on the Platts one night and charged that they were Negroes. Allan Platt had his marriage license and the children's birth certificates to prove the family white. Instead of listening, the sheriff ordered the children to line up for a photograph...
...them cheaper later for delivery). But last week it was the New York Stock Exchange itself that was painfully reminded of the penalties of selling "what isn't his'n." It was caught short on a sale of one of its seats: the membership of Broker Edward Platt to Broker W. Allston Flagg for $74,000. Platt promptly protested the sale. He had indeed once asked the exchange to sell his membership, but later changed his mind and formally withdrew the request...
...Nick Platt stroked a pick-up crew to victory over four other shells in the varsity rowers' annual "Hollow Log Regatta" on the Charles yesterday...
...winning boat was--Bow, Peter Nitze; 2, Ken Huggins; 3, Bob Dole; 4, Charlie Cunningham; 5, Sam Walcott; 6, Toby Baker; 7, Mike Metcalf; stroke, Platt; coxswain, Mac McLaughlin...