Word: pratt
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...other girl was Sylvia Pratt, warm-spirited daughter of a noted Boston doctor, and Kemper married her soon after he graduated in 1935-132nd in a class of 275. A "sand-rat lieutenant," he was soon running a cram school for getting enlisted men into West Point, did so well that in 1939 the Point yanked him out of the infantry to teach history. He dutifully earned a Columbia master's degree in 1942 while itching to go to war. In its wisdom, the Army put him in G-2 with the prickly job of organizing U.S. historians...
Sent by the Radcliffe Athletic Department, the team failed to survive the second round. Forty women's colleges were represented, with the 'Cliffies finishing very near the bottom. The number one singles player, Deming Pratt, could only comment that the team was "building...
...real artist," Brook recalls, "in a cutaway and striped trousers, working his little brush at breakneck speed. He would produce anything you could imagine-a battleship, a seascape-with dazzling facility." At 16, after a bout with polio that fortunately left no traces, Brook was painting ancient statuary at Pratt Institute; at 17 he enrolled at the Art Students League where in time he became a member of the faculty. Life became a succession of successes. He had close and congenial friends in Painters Niles Spencer, Louis Bouché and Peggy Bacon (whom he married in 1920), and every year...
...Marshall death was only one more spadeful in the tons of dirt cascading over the case of the Pecos Ponzi. Other developments: > Senator McClellan's Investigations Subcommittee announced that it would investigate the suicide (apparent) of William Pratt, 31. Chicago office manager of Commercial Solvents Corp., the New York firm that sold $5,700,000 worth of anhydrous ammonia to Estes, mainly on credit, hoping to be repaid from his grain-storage income. While no connection with the Estes case was evident, Pratt, asphyxiated by carbon monoxide in his car, left a bizarre note: "The bells even toll when...
Republicans are optimistic this year; with Faubus out of the way, they think their candidate, whomever Winthrop Rockefeller decides he's going to be, may make a good showing. Pratt Rummell, who was Little Rock's first, and only, Republican mayor, and who got 44 per cent of the vote against Faubus in the 1954 gubernatorial race, is likely to be Rockefeller's choice...