Word: pruitt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with Shakespeare. In House Party, four men and four women meet and mate. This puts Author Rowans on a par with Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, apart from which House Party resembles A Comedy of Errors. To the antediluvian Ames mansion at Pruitt's Landing, an "unspoiled" Long Island town, repairs the following partial cast of characters, some Ameses and some not: a superannuated dandy who is chauffeured about in a Hotchkiss landaulet; a Manhattan model; a frustrated young architect who works for Vahan Rabadab Associates ("All Rabadab buildings looked like banks of file cabinets with the drawers...
...discomfort became gradually worse, Snyder went to the White House to sit up the rest of the night with him. The President vomited repeatedly, and Dr. Snyder now knew that something worse than a stomach upset had hit the President. Calling in Walter Reed's Dr. Francis Pruitt to help, Dr. Snyder deduced by noontime that the President had acute ileitis.. This diagnosis, one of more than a dozen possibilities suggested by the symptoms, could not have been confirmed in the White House bedroom without X rays if Snyder had not been familiar with Ike's previous...
...nine, Mike Levinson won handly in straight games from Les Pruitt, while Roger Cortesi lost 3 to 1 to Bill Crum in the number eight match...
When the FBI arrested Bonnie Brown Heady in St. Louis for her part in the kidnap-killing of Bobby Greenlease (TIME, Oct. 19), they found a bottle of pills in her purse. The FBI told the Food & Drug Administration. In the death house, FDA Investigator Roy Pruitt interviewed Bonnie Heady and her partner, Carl Austin Hall. Where, Pruitt wanted to know, did they get the stuff without a prescription? Neither would tell. But Hall said he had been under the influence of the drug, plus liquor, when he killed the boy, and did not think he could have committed...
...illegal sale of prescription items have involved amphetamine. On the FDA's list, goof balls are pushing barbiturates as the worst under-the-counter drug menace. Many doctors, the FDA believes, prescribe amphetamine too freely, not recognizing the danger from its misuse. And Killer Hall told Investigator Pruitt that his technique was to hand the druggist a $20 bill and say, "This is my prescription." He added: "For $20 most anyone can buy bennies...