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Robert Newman and Joe Cunningham, roustabouts with a traveling carnival, went drinking together in Greenville, S.C. They got into a drunken quarrel, and Newman stabbed Cunningham to death. Last week Circuit Judge J. B. Pruitt sentenced Newman, 23, to two years in jail for manslaughter. In imposing the minimum sentence (maximum under South Carolina law: 30 years), Pruitt told the defendant, a white man, that he deserved to do time for drinking with Cunningham, a Negro. "God made us different," said the judge. "You could have found some white people to associate with...
...will be formally inaugurated before the discussion begins. Jerome L. Rappaport '45, 1L, now president of the organization, was returned to the board, compiling 179 votes out of the approximately 300 cast. Also renamed, taking second and third place in the balloting, were John F. Kiezan 2L and Samuel Pruitt 1L, now secretary and treasurer respectively...
Double-Trouble. In Chicago, Bigamist Robert Pruitt's two wives went to the same hospital, presented him with children the same day, found out about each other...
CLARENCE M. PRUITT Stillwater, Okla...
...himself included. Two were Cord executives: Vice President Lucius B. Manning of Cord Corp.; Major Lester Draper ("Bing") Seymour, a small, genial disciplinarian who flew with the A. E. F. and who has been president of American Airways since December. Two were Cord lawyers: stocky General Counsel Raymond S. Pruitt; Lyndol L. Young, who grew up with Cord in Los Angeles, hunted squirrels with him on the site of the Ambassador Hotel, graduated from the University of Southern California and was for a time U. S. District Attorney. Mr. Cord brought him East last autumn...