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...understand why people keep I talking about size," Cleveland Browns Running Back Greg Pruitt complains. "Nobody ever asked Columbus how tall he was." Perhaps because, in the words of a contemporary of the Great Discoverer, Columbus was "as regards his exterior person and bodily disposition, more than middling tall." But in the behemoth world of professional football, Pruitt, at 5 ft. 9 in. and 190 Ibs., is more than middling small. From his first day in football as a seventh-grader-when a 4-ft. 4-in. schoolmate looked down at Pruitt (who was an inch shorter) and dubbed...
...Pruitt does not have to look far for company this year; the little guys are making it big in the National Football League. Dashing to touchdowns, leaping to bat down passes or darting past befuddled defenders for a crucial reception, the runts have provided some of the most thrilling moments in a season of slogging defensive domination. Among the best: the Houston Oilers' Billy ("White Shoes") Johnson (5 ft. 9 in., 170 Ibs.) of the end-zone victory dance, scooting past Chicago Bear defenders, then performing the N.F.L.'s first dwarf dunk-a triumphant spike over the goal...
Running back Greg Pruitt was the Cleveland offensive cannon gaining 153 yards on 27 carries, and scoring the touch-down that tied the score...
...putting flesh on the bones of their Afro-American heritage. "We all knew what slavery was, by hearsay and by family tradition," noted Boston Journalist Robert Jordan. "But this put all those feelings in living color where you've got to believe them." Said Little Rock Teacher Charles Pruitt: "The black kids resent what has happened and say, 'They couldn't do it to me like that,' but the white kids say, 'But look, I'm not like that...
...been shortened, many burn victims remain from 30 to 60 days and some are kept a year or more, not only because they are undergoing extensive skin grafts but because portions of the body may have to be entirely reconstructed. In fact, says Brooke's Colonel Basil A. Pruitt, the army's top burn expert, the plastic surgery in some cases is sheer artistry...