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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...
...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...
Coach Harvey Love named Nat Goddard, Carlo Zezza, Nick Platt, and Howie Cushing to stroke the four varsity boats. The other oarsmen were chosen at random from among the present varsity candidates, so none of the boats. The other oarsmen were chosen at random from among the present varsity candidates, so none of the boats is actually the final varsity crew. Goddard, Zezza, and Platt are all sophomores...