Word: pratt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Frederic Bayley Pratt, 80, longtime head of Brooklyn's coeducational, 57-year-old Pratt Institute, which was founded by his multimillionaire father, Charles Pratt, associate of John D. Rockefeller in organizing and originally running the Standard Oil Co.; of a heart ailment ; in Glen Cove...
...perhaps, give a very clear idea of the story, but that is no great loss. One of the odd things about this odd picture is that there really is an Arizona town called Salome-Where She Danced. It was named; however, after a native, a Mrs. Grace Salome Pratt; and it is called, for short, Suhloam. The oddest thing of all, though, is that the show is quite a lot of fun. Most of the color and costuming is garishly pretty; the dialogue is richly flavored with such tongue-in-cheek lines as one man's description...
Hibbard James '45 will play the Lord Chancellor; Jay J. Hughes '45 will play Strephon; Miss Helena Fenn, Radcliffe '47, will play Phyllis; William Sullivan '45, will play Mountararat; Frederick Pratt '45, will play Tolloller; and Barr Peterson '47, will play Willis...
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...
...those who could stomach it, there was a wonderful medical-art show on view last week in Baltimore's Enoch Pratt Free Library. Its 162 meticulous, gruesome pictures represented the work of about half of the nation's 50 professional medical artists. There was a portrait of an 89-pound tumor shortly after removal, a thorax without any viscera, a woman being skin-grafted after removal of her breast...