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...Scheduled to play Pratt Junior College last week, Oklahoma's Connors Junior College regretfully begged out of the game. The reason: eight of Connors' 24 football players had broken arms...
Died. David Beresford Pratt, 54, wealthy, English-born Transvaal farmer and would-be assassin who in April 1960 fired two bullets into the head of South African Prime Minister Hendrik F. Verwoerd (who recovered), was later declared by a court to be "unfit" to stand trial; by his own hand (strangulation with a bed sheet); in a Bloemfontein, South Africa, mental institution...
...external use against muscle aches and the "rheumatiz," there were liniments galore. Merchant's Gargling Oil, not to be gargled, was one. Like Pratt's Healing Ointment, it was "for Man and Beast." Clark Stanley's Snake Oil Liniment was promoted by the slaughter of hundreds of rattlesnakes at the Chicago World's Fair, but contained no rattlesnake oil. "Used external only," it was for "rheumatism, neuralgia, sciatica, lame back, lumbago, contracted muscles, frost bites, chill blains, bruises, and sore throat...
Sailplane pilots are part bird, too, who flock to competitions not so much for the trophies as for the chance to drift on the wind with others who share the love of the experience. Many of the entrants at Wichita also fly powered planes, e.g., 46-year-old Leonard Pratt, a Central Airlines captain, who took up sailing as an exhilarating change from the security-and the thunder-of piston flight. Another contestant, Gleb Derujinsky, 36, makes his living as a freelance fashion photographer...
...keep shop. Founders Judkyn and Pratt picked Ian McCallum, then executive editor of Britain's Architectural Review, and debonair Briton who is fascinated by American architecture both good and bad. Says Curator McCallum: "There is a quite amazing ignorance which exists in Britain of America's cultural past-and present, for that matter." He thinks that the museum, by putting "history into the fourth dimension in a way that films and even books can't do," may shed some light...