Theodore Pratt Collection
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Florida's Barefoot Mailmen
Type: Text
Year: 1966, 1966
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Manuscript and correspondence with American Heritage Publishing
Full Text: ( FLORIDA'S BAREFOOT MAILMEN By THEODORE PRATT For illustration six 35 mm. color slides of the beautiful and excellent murals in the West Palm Beach, Florida, postoffice, painted by Stephen Dohanos for the Federal Government and requiring no p~1ment for …
Publication History of The Money
Type: Text
Year: 1966, 1966
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Original manuscript written as and addenda to "Why Authors Dislike Publishers" more
Full Text: .: Publication history of THB MONEY, by Theodor Pratt. This is an addenda to WHY AUTHORS DISLIKE PUBLISHERS. See corrospon•ence relating to this account to bo add d later to the collection. See also additional correspon•ence in regard to the contractual …
When the Bomb Hit
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: WHEN THE BOMB HIT By THEODORE PRATT 9600 words. First North American Serial Rights Only. Theodore Pratt Route 1, Box 801 Delray Beach, Florida WHEN THE BOMB HIT By THEODORE PRATT Everybody said an atom bomb would never be dropped on our town if …
Cocks Must Fight
Type: Text
Year: 1935, 1935
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: "It 1 to le s Pip r J ntr lo h1. der tb. en r 1.1 t. eJ.r n ck ip r C r n in. i er th be h 0 0 C to lize that 1 th t it h 1 t ., t r 0 ul • be e , coo in th muck 11' h ow it tn ·eh e.in s cees ft l 0 p opl· ' 1 t int t 1nat on d a tie to X d y w :r all tr …
City Bids For Motel Trade
Type: Text
Year: 1960, 1960
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Article clipped from The New York Times
Full Text: --~SORTS THE NEW YORK Tl1Vrn5, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1960. CITY BIDS FOR MOTEI_J TRA.DE By THEODORE PRATT Visitor Finds New York tels. _The basic rate is $14 a Y wife and I are not day, smgle or double occupancy; like many present-day Is Catching Up With …
Larry's Girl
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Includes a submission log.
Full Text: A short-story: LARRY'S GIRL By THEODORE PRATT Fir•t North American Serial Righta Only 3000 words. Theodore Pratt Route 1, Box 818 Delray Beach, Florida LARRYrS GIRL By THEODORE PRATT Michael, carrying his small bag as he walked along the street, wuddenly …
The Careful Deception
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Includes correspondences. This story was published in the Alfred Hitchock's Mystery Magazine in 1964. more
Full Text: TH A ovelet • a doned 100 t lt or By yo have hr e of c . ple o l and ln raelt •- f S.t 1 r lan 1• fool ro f ..........,,,...,n r 7,000 rda. rl an 11\eod re Prat oute 1. ox lray ach 1 a A ODO 1 u ff th l yt int at 1 st lt • fo • l t 0 dollar . rk d of f t …
Thunder Mountain
Type: Text
Year: 1944, 1944
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: f THUNDER MOUNTAIN (A Play in Three Acta) By THEODORE PRATT (Dramatized by the author from his novel, THUNDER MOUN'rAIN, to be published in Aprim, 1944~ by Duell, Sloan & Pearce, New York t> J 3? .1\/ .> ✓ 7k ?/, • .,.,.e - H~..,.,,,.. •f "' ~-e …
I Choose Johnny Tiger
Type: Text
Year: 1954, 1954
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Alternative title Seminole Justice
Full Text: 11) Published as I CHOOSE JOHNNY TIGER, "Hunting Adventures," New York 1954. Included in Pratt collection I FLORIDA ROUNDA·BOUT, 1959, as "Seminole Justice." SEMINOLE JUSTICE B~ Theodore Pratt ./ ~ ~ ~ Both the y9ung man and the very old man knew …
The Five Pound Box of Candy
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: .Is ort to •• y n i r • T D P TT r ed vel• THE MO EY. t rt rt s b eeti fro t_ . th r's e 1 p bli h d by Du 11-Mer 1th . eric ri l rights r off r , t blic ti ft ·o i t Fall of 1 65 . I b g yo r 1 dul c at se d g th tory to v ral agazine imult eously. Th …
The Pensioners
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: l ) fI I II. ' P E NS I ONE RS THE ':. A Ten.d.er i ~ ~ ( \l } { I ,I { 1' l J , I l J. ~ i ' l l ' i' ) f ' I I I \ THE AT der oaedy tn o Acts (••See y THIODO eodore Pratt's ow.a draaati&at on of is •> PRATT lorid novel I B ran for six MOnth.s ln Nev …
Louise for Christmas Dinner
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: LOUISE POR CHRISTMAS DINNBR By fflBODORE PRATT Approximately 900 words. Pi_rst Serial rights only. Theodore Pratt Route 1, Box 801 Delray Beach, Florida 33444 I I I LOUISE FOR CHRISTMAS DINNER By THEODORE PRATI' A good many years ago, during my early days …
The Owl That Kept Winking
Type: Text
Year: 1944, 1944
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: THE OWL THAT KEPT WINKING By THEODORE PRATI' First published in "Esquire," June, 1944. Included in "The Best American Short Stories of 1945. 11 11Argosy, 11 England, 1945. Included id.author's collection, "Florida Roundabout," 1959. Translated hnd …
The Palm Beach Story
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Article printed in Holiday
Full Text: Royal palms express the splendor and aloofness of Palm Beach, as the foreign-make car does her internat,i onal social life. THE PALM BEACH STORY by THEODORE PRATT ALM BEACH is a place near the United PStates of America. As Florida leaves the rest of the …
On the Town
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: A short-story: ON THE TOWN By THEODORE PRATT 4000 words. First North American Serial Rights Only Theodore Pratt Route 1, Box 818 Delray Beach, Florida ON THE TOWN By THEODORE PRATT The first night seventy-four year old Fred Gr,anger met Tom Nelson., who …
Visit With the Master
Type: Text
Year: 1931, 1931
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: VISIT WITH THE MASTER By THEODORE PRATT First published in STORY, Majorca, Spain, 1931. Included in A STORY ANTHOLOGY, 1933. Reprinted, as VERlDICT OF THE HASTER, 11 Escapade," December,1956. 6300 Words. All rights owned by author. Theodore Pratt Route 1, …
Uneasy House
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: UNEASY HOUSE ( (a novel) By Theodore Pratt Approximately 80,000 words. , Address, Virginia Rice 18 East 41 Street New York, N. Y. ., - - - - - - ------------.---~-~---------'!" ONE "Ginkrow Nud," .Targan read painted on the side of one of the trailers he …
Visit to Rhome, Texas
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: VISIT TO By •rHEODORE PRATT First North American serial Rights Only 800 words. Theodore Pratt Route 1, Box 818 Delray Beach, Florida , \~'L_ ,,,,,... v__ r_s_r_T_T_o_ _R_H_o_NE...,i,, 1GxA .s By THEODORE PRATT department store atmosphere, at four o'clock …
The Twins
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: A modern re-telling of the famous legend of Led~and the Swan in which the narrator gets into quite a bit of trouble with his audience of small twin daughters. THE T W I .N S By THEODORE FRATT 2800 words. First North American Serial Rights Only. Alternate …
Get a Horse
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Includes submission log and a letter from McCall's Magazine. more
Full Text: A short-story: GET A HORSE By THEODORE PRATT 5500 words First North American Serial Roights Only Theodore Pratt Route 1, Box 801 Delray Beach - Florida 33444 A short-story: GET A HORSE By TH.S:OOORii: PRATT George Mead knew that his automobile would be …
Prison Fire
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: Theodore Pratt 25 Sickles Place Netv Rochelle, N. Y. PRISON ~Y FIRE Theodore Pratt Treatment for talking :pictures adapted from the short-story, "DEBT" by Theodore Pratt, published in "Complete Stories Magazine;" It's two hours before the time set tor …
Doorway to Heaven
Type: Text
Year: 1959, 1959
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Story was published in Fantastic Universe Magazine.
Full Text: OlJ o {2,w ft '1 7 u fi /37'-½ cJ p rJ )/-lr6fve I"Pr- ~ f r h l ~ ;2_ 1 - HEA"iELL By THEODORE PRATT At first John didn't know Where he wasx ifta.as and failed to be sure about what had happened, except he knew it was something drastic and terrifying. …
Article for anniversary issue of Variety
Type: Text
Year: 1960, 1960
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: I Theodore Pratt Route 1, Box 818 Delray Beach, Florida For AnJiversary issue of VARIETY\ 1960:l ,\ By Theodore Pratt v ':Pfte Americanl,..,' %Ill:,r.i,i. book( L-, lla,s been the object of some haymakers landed on its jaw lately. First there was "Time's" …
Osceola
Type: Text
Year: 1954, 1954
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: By THEOOORB NL\TT AdJ1rpted ~y ~b11 from his ~ov~l .and play, SE ,J!NOtS 1eleplay .f or a 90-min~te special tlrai.1a Jl!'Offtam an.tl/t:.l't • 90 ·nlinut~ pilot for a new hour adventi,rso $~1'"1~&,. Offering the opportunity 'to strike an; entirely new …
I Paint What I See
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: I P,AIN'l' WHAT I SEE By THEODORE PRA'l'T Ravine eeledtad Cagnes- sur- mer , because my wife and I believed it must be , from its name , directly on the Mediterranean, as the place we would live in France , we promptly disdovered it was located on a …
The Flame Tree
Type: Mixed Material
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Book cover
Full Text: THE FLAME TREE By· Theodore Pratt Author of The Barefoot Mailman, The Big Bubble, and Florida Roundabout No chapter in the story of America is more colorful than the opening up of Florida about the turn of this century. And no one is better qualified to …
Tell the Man's Sister, Hollywood
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: / , . /' F rstJ No·rth American ' '. Se~ial Rights Only. Theodore Pratt Route 1, Box 801 Delray Beach, Florida '•-isob words. 33444 TELL THE MAN'S SISTER, HOLLYWOOD By THEODORE PRATT If there ts one thing out• oded in Hollywood it ts its tr atment of the …
Anybody Want to Be an Author?
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: The last page of this manuscript contains a photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Pratt.
Photo by Bert & Richard Morgan Studio:
Theodore Pratt and his wife, Jackie (his valentine of the book),
arriving at the Dedication Ball of the Henry Morrison Flagler
Museum in Palm Beach. more
Full Text: ANYBODY WANT TO BE AN AUTHOR? By THEODORE PRATT ANYBODY WANT TO BE AN AU'fflORT By rnEODORE PRATT It is not the thought of the author to have the book illustrated like a regular autobiogTaphy, which it is not, but to use only one photograph, o~the back of …
Soft Marble
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: SOFT MARBLE By THEODORE PRATT 81 HORATIO STREET NEW YORK, N. Y. Watkins 6392 . Theodore Pratt 60 , 000 words . (1) CHAPTER ONE. It was John Doe, the doorman of the Laocoon Club, who could best explain the nature of this bizarre organization. With the …
Mr. Atom
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: It, MR f It ' )_ ATOM 3 By rfHEODORE PRATT 65, 0 00· wo:rds • Pirst serial book . publication rights in th Unit d States, its territories, and Canada Theodore ' Pra.tt Route l .► Box 801 Delray Beach. PloridB 33444 , \ C . COPYRIGH 1969 by THEODORE PRATT …
Miss Dilly Says No
Type: Text
Year: 1945, 1945
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Farrell Publishing Corporation
Full Text: • • • • • The Cause of Childless Marriage • • • • • • • • • • • • Maclean's Help for Women in Debt • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Alissa Keir It's Good to be Discontented • • • • • • • • • • • • Dale Carnegie The Truth About Margarine • • • • • • • • • • • …
Conch Boy
Type: Text
Year: 1957, 1957
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: CONCH . BOY By THEODOR£ PRJs.'l?T ,-... The spiny lobster• milled ab")Ut in the 11v well of the boaf t as ./ if they knew, and protested, that they were head d for the kitchen or the hot l in Key W st. W1oey sat by the well , resting from long diving for …
I Jes' Goin'
Type: Text
Year: 1935, 1935
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: From ~he New Yorker and Perils In Provence. I JES ' GOIN ' In the newspaper one morning a good many years ago when my wife and I first went to Florida to live, we head of the lynching of a Negro that had taken place the night before in a locality not far …
No Regrets for a Switch to Writing for Softbounds
Type: Text
Year: 1961, 1961
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Article clipped from The Chicago Tribune
Full Text: No Regrets for a Switch to Writing for Softbounds By Theodore Pratt ' [Author of "The Barefoot Mailman" and other novels, ,including a forthcoming paperback original, " The Lovers of Pompeii."] FTER HAVING 19 hardbound novels published, in I have …
The Process of Becoming an Artist
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Article printed in The Chesterfieldian
Full Text: Page 242 TH .E CHESTE.RFIE.LDIAN The Process of Becoming An Artist By TED PRATT ing in the Woman's Home Companion magazine." T was a hot afternoon and I was contemplat"My father was glad of my inclination for any I asked Mr. Hitchcock of his boyhood days …
House Party Hotel
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Article printed in unknown magazine
Full Text: Driftwood-" carnival of sea fragments and castle of discarded used parts." Jfouse Partv Jfote/ by Theodore Pratt paintings by Marion Terry the Florida east coast, at Vero M Beach, is a collection of four rustic buildings IDWAY DOWN that look as if they …
The Mad Palace
Type: Text
Year: 1962, 1962
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: \ \ 1 0 he ·t ,1red eyee or hi coaaack agtgta ver ttw S...•nae wh1 te lotc my·a terio ely t,hrough he beeau d•tined tt wa• un r eant. " n worn tl t. Ob hie Nt quaver• y an eep race blt n leanly le ea1a,{ \ht a1r or Yeniureao andlr la • om he JOU eee • ft …
Passport
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: / I Theodore Pratt 25 Sickles Place New Rochelle, N. Y. PASSPORT I was definitely dis·turbed when the authorities, upon my arrival in the Spanish tov1n where I took up temporary residence, requested my passport with the information that they would keep it …
The Not Too Gentle Art of Play-Reading
Type: Text
Year: 1927, 1927
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Copy of article from Theater Magazine
Full Text: The Not Too Gentle Art of Play-Reading An Inside Exposition of What Happens to Plays in Theatrical Offices and the Types of Authors Who Submit Their Scripts By Theodore Pratt S O many other things have claimed to be arts that a play-reader is tempted to …
Miss Understanding
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: ( A Play 1n one Aot) By fheodo~o Pra~t 'l'heodoro Pratt 81 Horatio tree\ Jew Yo:rk• !f. Y. ntory and dialogue OoPJ~ight Wld07 title Of ,. All F'or AJ't . • ters: 0 y L • - j t littl lo . 1~1 t:.eying oer ot 1r lliea fl •a ubl1o1ty rom o t th , 1l1. ~h1n b …
The Big Bubble
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: … Florida Atlantic University Digital Library …
The Infidelities of Mr. Winkle
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: THE INFIDELITIES OF MR. WINKLE It was during the war that being unta1thtul to hie w1te. r. Winkle had h1a first brush with He did not dream such a th1ng would ever come about when he was called up tor a physical examination 1n the draft or men between …
Spain Through the Keyhole
Type: Text
Year: 1933, 1933
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Clippings from a column from The Daily Palma Post
Full Text: THE DAILY PALMA POST, PAL\'IA DE MALLuR SPAIN THROUGH THE KEYHOLE (Madrid) By THEODORE PRATT Madrid was once known for pos- crossing the filthy palm even with sessing an assertive king and copper, the cough is cured imme- / • run h an d 1n • h an d w1•th …
Lion with Integrity
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: LION WITH INTEGRITY By THEODORE PRATT When Evia Massie phoned him, George at first didn't know who was on the wire. Even when at .h is inquiry she said her name a second time, his memory made no connection. "It's Evisl" cried. unon't yot1 remember the h …
Burlesque Bands of Spain
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: I I t I f I I I ~Y-•": /" • -~ t / 'r 6--rnajorca, Spain. 'I,· ~ ~I ~ , ,,,.~ ,;,' .,p ,f "Ab so so de s'espadella, Diuen que hi fi bon ca.ntl. Ab so s6 de s 'espadella, Diuen ~ue hi f~ bon canta'. Y de siara :p~, Colque toch a so~ gonella." A student of …
Without Consent: A Play in Three Acts
Type: Text
Year: 1962, 1962
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: J t CONS E NT l qit i Jt ' Vt ·t:; ti. ' ry Me _..1, • tm t 1 2 van • ... ( I • l A t H • tlo ( tuln · au Ctll . . · . ~tJ ehard • .· • .e C t. o t,. a · · ·. aul. eon'Vf..tirtlon) lt by , • OWftd f.ta r I • ( ) t 1 I 1 t 1he 'I found if'l't ♦ t,. ni.dtwd …
New Concept of Life
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Includes a published version.
Full Text: -- lor da Arcb teot Oonce1ve a Unique Theory of Genesis and Demonstvates It by Pain mg a 1ctur • Song, ana Oe.rfl.ng r t ng st tu TH~JODOHE P ATT 2700 word . Po s1bla Val1d1ty Pl , Composing NEW CONO i:fT OF LIPE By 'RHEOOORE PRA!f 'l?o h ar him talk most …
Frogolympics
Type: Text
Year: 1936, 1936
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Article published in Coronet, 1936 v.1, n.1, pp. 143-149.
Full Text: CORONET for NOVEMBER 1936 TEXTUAL FEATURES FACTUAL: Life Can Be Bought Paul De Kruif 3 Notes on Being a Boss Francis Leo Golden 89 Mussolini, Duelist E. C. Branchi 101 Turf and Public Robert Saunders Dowst 111 So You Want to Fly Clyde Pangborn 184 …
Florida's $64,000,000 Question
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: I 1'he st ry or thur 11n1 g Dn is-· ,64 00 000 QUES:t.ION -·----·--------FLJ . A 1 S 1 1 By 'l'HEODORE PRA?~• ov r 45oo wo· s. I I ( Alt rnnt 1 t tl 2 ·HS f\ ll WHO I' BUYING FLO!=llDA FLORID ts f2a,ooo,ooo QUES 'ION By THEODORE PATT Ev r since a peppery …
The Unknown Soldier
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: T H E U I K B O WB S O L D I E R (A Play in One Act) By Theodore Pratt. / ( Theodore G. Pratt 25 Sickles Place New Rochelle, N. Y. Copyright applied for. All rights reserved. C Persons In The Play: EMMA CARR. LOUISE DALE. ARTHUR CARR. T H E U N X I O WI S …
The Tormented
Type: Text
Year: 1950, 1950
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Fawcett Publications, Inc.
Full Text: 3 e A Daring Subiect-Masterfully Told THE TORMENTED "There are some women like that," he said bluntly. "You're one of them. No one man can ever he enough for you." Zona's eyes went wide with shoclt and anger. What horrible thing was he saying? What right …
There's Nothing Like A British Train Trip
Type: Text
Year: 1965, 1965
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Article clipped from The Chicago Tribune
Full Text: - -· ..... - - - - . - ... .. .... . . ,.. ......,. ~ ..... ... .. -- ,.. ----- ...... --. CHICAGO TRIBUNE, SUNDAY, MAY 9, 1965 - There's Nothing Like a British Train Trip was marked: "Circular Tours, me in surprise when I said Dogs, Cycles, Motors, Etc." …
The Money
Type: Mixed Material
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Book cover
Full Text: $4.95 THE MONEY by Theodore Pratt In this incisive, entertaining novel, Theodore Pratt depicts what happens when five young children find, keep for themselves, and start to spend a large amount of money. George, age twelve, is the leader. His plans start …
The Cocotte
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: THE COCOT T E (A Play in Four Acts.) By Theodore Pratt Theodore Pratt i Mil'l:c=sta Lano !few Yo:ek, :N . Y. SpPi:eg 4eQ7. :t, 't '7 Wt!! , f I 2 t:J, J fJ New yu,A~A/.Y, cl,el,~~ -&? 6 d THE COCOTTE, copyright by the author . All rights reserved. …
Smash-Up
Type: Mixed Material
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Book cover
Full Text: 25c - First he shattered her young lifethen he made her fall in love with him SMASH-UP © ~ eiht NtttJ U-ork ~ime, liook lttuitttJ DECEMBER L ,,., Unlimited ESCAPE TO EDEN. By Theodore Meanwhile, a beautiful but P,ett. 2U pp. New Yon: . Gold honest young …
H
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Includes correspondences from editors.
Full Text: H By THEODORE PRATT Alternate title: THE WATERMELON 3,000 words. • First North American Serial Rights Only Theodore Pratt Route 1, Box 801 Delray Beach. Florida 33444 H By THEODORE PRATT It was at night, in the faint moonlight, when Martine found the …
Mr. Beems Becomes Masterful
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: -Y . odore Pratt 'I'r e crl 173:> j Ls J__ t it , ark Blvd .-., ]ifornia_. i.1r . Beems. w s procee ~ines throu&-1 life vrlth even greater car e than usual, for he W'as hrivln'"'"' B diff'erence of opinior \"✓1th his wife , ~.art'1.a , w½.o him. 1 ,,.ad a …
Stretch, The Dachshund
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: f STRETCH, THE DACHSHUND By TH.80DORE PRATT Appr oximately 9, 000 words . 'l'h o dore .P ratt Alternate title: Hollywood z8, 6al1f . DOG AND A HALF Af~e~ Oe~ober 2~11953: Box 331, Boca Raton Fl orida 2',16 Baldon Brlve r For • Jack1e 1 my wife ,. who …
The Twins and Miss Snoop
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: TH~ TWINS AND MISS SNOOP By TH~ODOR~ PRATT 3300 words First North American serial Rights Only Theodore Pratt Route 1, Box 818 Delray Beach, Florida T HE T WI N S A ND MI S S S NOOP By Theodore Pratt Ashley Vandemere put down his brushes and palette and …
Mr. Beems Tells Off the Landlord
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: L r.i.:_:1,aod 02 re rat-:. 17 6¾ Gintf"f-= th ar Blvd • ., Los "ui._;_J:; le c, Ca ~ if orni a . TE • B E There was only o ie OFF Trl L, N ·LO I ~r. on to ·, ems dared to re, lar y di play _1 self .ould rea ly 1 •• rn .._o . , -- as. e1 t ve, c r of a …
An Interview with Frank Leyendecker
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Article printed in The Chesterfieldian
Full Text: THE CHESTERFIELDIAN Page 421 An Interview with Leyendecker By TED PRATT "All day," he said, "and in the evening until T was not without a deal of awe and wonderbro~her and I went to Paris to study. For three ment that I approached the home of Frank years …
50,000 Motels Can't Be Wrong
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
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Sentence of Death
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: SENTENCE OF DEATH a short story By THEODORE PRATT Note: The time of tbis story can easily be changed from right after the first world war to right after the second world war. Theodore Pratt %Rosalie Stewart Agency 441 s. Beverly Drive Beverly Hills, …
Mr. Winkle Goes to War
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: r ,, ' I j Oi:iginal manuscr-ip"t 'o'f : MB.. WINKLE GOES -TO WAR ~ P&2r' ✓By - THEODOR.E 1 PRATT Published by Duell, Sloan & Pearce, New York, 1943 r' - / \ ; l . f ( .J I i , 'l\,._ .·' C ~ " It_n(tver in the world ever occufed to Mr. Wi nl{le that -- …
Today the World
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: TODAY THE WORLD By THEODORE PRATT Theodore Pr·att Box 331 Boca Raton, Florida after June 1: 3 Prospect Street New Rochelle, N.Y. I THE ROOM WAS quite large. Slightly longer than wide, it measured around sixty by fifty feet. least twenty-five feet. all …
The Other Twin
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: THE By First North American Serial Rights Only 4500 words. OTHER TWIN THEODORE PRATT Theodore Pratt Route 1, Box 818 Delray Beach, Florida THE OTHER TWIN By THEODORE PRATT "There he isl That 1 s the man! That 1 s the one who robbed me!" The woman's voice, …
Arise from the Dead
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: ARISE FROM THE DEAD By Theodore Pratt In the mirror of his car, as he drove along, Jargan from time to time glanced at his trailer attached behind. He had been told to do this, to pick some particular point to watch as the best way to discover any trouble …
Hattie
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: HAT'lIE By THEODORE PRATT Her regular cleaning woman had not appeared that moI'ning• and by the time Mrs.Belding decided she was not coming, and bad oalled the employment agency to send over another to her apartment, 1t was nearly ten o'clock. 1 l'he …
Picnic in California
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: An Ottginal 'fel.e pl,&f I n !~iu~ Aot, Por aa. Hour Jregra• t 11 T,mQJilQBI IBAfT Note: This eor1pt oan be produced either live or made on film . . If .d one li've some of the simple modern oostl1llte changes for o:nly a few people are tight for time, …
Big Blow Program
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: IElfG 13l0ff BY Th,e odore Pratt STI\G ED BY I\NTON BUNDSMANN MUSIC BY HANS BRUNO MEYER I' SETTINGS BY SAMUEL LEVE ~ , ~ LIGHTING .. ,. '. " BY C0$TUME$ BY MARY MERRILL FEDER . ' 411 , . .. I . ' ,• , PRODUCED BY Morris …
Organizing the Writer's Material
Type: Text
Year: 1962, 1962
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Original article manuscript and article printed in Writer's Digest more
Full Text: PUBLISHER IN "THE WRITER ' S DIGEST , ' 19610 PLEASE RETURN TO AUTHOR . OR.G\NIZ:Uto nm WRI ii:.:a. s . TERL.a.L Theodot'El P: tt" wh liv s !.n t_:ita~ ,~ l:ltC!J:a spapP~A -1(.,.u_, ~DU ✓ n ref t •,tai1man t t'li -t~ -~ul" , ~ "Th ir laureate of Fl t d:t …
The Touch
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: I 1 Theodore Pre. tt 222 North K Street ~ke Worth, Florida. TRE TOUCH B.v Theodore Pratt Nw. It was coming now. Webby telt sure of it. All the usual signs had appeared, beginning with the letter trom Charlie, after all these years, to the present …
How to Build a Fire
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: Original story tor a Robert Benohley shorts \. HO ~ TO BUILD A FIRE By THroOORE PRATT Benchley 1a se n leavin son of ten. h1a house With sonny, his small They are dressed tor camping in the woods, sonny 1n a neat, simple Boy Scout's outfit and Benchlo~ …
Prison Train
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: P R I S ON TRAIN By 1rHEODORE PRATT The long, stream.lined, stainless steel train, starrli ng splendid and shining in the -Chicago railroad station, had only one th:llm.g the matter with it. Tacked on its end, like an incongruous afterthought, there was a …
Why Authors Hate Publishers
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: WHY AUTHORS HATE PUBLISHERS By THEODORE PRATT Excerpt from the author's newly-completed Thirty-fx h book, "Anybody Want To Be An Author?" which tells the frank story of his life as a writer. 6000 words. First North American SErial Rights Only. Theodore …
I Found My Mother
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Includes a letter to an editor.
Full Text: Third person story to be re-worked under title: I FOUND MY MOTHER ' ,1 First North American Serial Rights in English Only. 4000 words. Theodore Pratt Route 1, Box 818 Delray Beach,Flor1da GOING HOME By Theodore Pratt In a few minutes, when the taxi gets …
Favor Returned
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: FAVO 1• tan the ba ket or or you ton ge RETU 'D 1c •• ny s id polit ly, e c rr1ed into our kitchen, 0 th xt y n r • hi toring on y co or . g couple tbat th r • dozen extry . ' xp cte re ·1 y ounted o 1 Ony ' fifteen lles t ncl t e promise ha oz . rr v 1 a …
The Golden Sorrow
Type: Text
Year: 1952, 1952
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Fawcett Publications, Inc.
Full Text: 16 He climbed to stardom on a dozen broken. hearts .The ·Golden Sorrow @ THEODORE PRATT ,.,.,,..,,, ...- ::l> eparlmenl 9370 SANTA MONICA BOULEVARD BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA . .. Here's ·Danny Rattigan Sylvia looked at Danny. _ "You 're very handsome," …
God Knows
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: Theodore Pratt 25 Sickles Place New Rochelle, N. Y. GOD KNOWS The Reverend Gideon Oder, a Cracker evangelist, was a f'airly close neighbor of mine in Florida. I had heard him preach in his ramshackle church, whic1t-e called "The Sanct1£1ed and Pentecostal …
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: Ho l lywood, -,:y 26, 1943 I wrote t ' s dramatizat i on of Dorian Gray in 1923 as an exercise in the playwr1ght1ng course of Hatcher Hughes at Columbia University . When Prof . ughes read it told h i s class, was astounded to learn that the theme dealt …
Mr. Webster Goes to a Bullfight
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: MR. WEBSTER GOES TO A BULLFIGHT By THEODO:RE PRATT 2100 words . Fir t Nirth American Serial Rights Only . Theodore Pratt 717- B Ninth Street Santa Monica California MR. WEBSTER GOES TO A BULLFIGHT By THEODORE PRATT Mr . Webster stared at the great arena …
Please Help the Blind
Type: Text
Year: 1941, 1941
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Article printed in The Villager
Full Text: Please Delp The Blind PRIZE CHARACTER SKETCH by Theodore Pratt M y BLIND COUSIN, Elizabeth, was coming on from Boston for a short visit, and I was delegated to meet her at the bus station and take her around the town. I remem, bered Elizabeth as a child, …
Handsome
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: A re-working, and in part an adaptation and treatment of the novel, using most of the printed book, by the author, to make the story acceptable to the Motion Picture Broduction Code, of: HANDSOME By THEODORE PRATT Route 1, Box 81f Delray Beach, Florida …
Mr. Limpet
Type: Mixed Material
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Book cover
Full Text: 1.75 .. MR. LIMPET THEODORE PRATT The rich ingredients of this new novel by Theodore Pratt are a calm acceptance of the impossible, a delicious sense of fun, and some shrewd and devastating comment on men and their ways. Not since Lady into Fox has there …
Mercy Island
Type: Mixed Material
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Book cover
Full Text: ,-:-v:"\--♦"~~'7--1":"'v-:"'~--♦"$ 2 . 50 net /11 BR UPTLY the tarpon turned and ~7/ headed for the mangroves along the shore of the key. Lowe, the Conch captain, swung the boat broadside to work against the pull of the fish; but the line went singing out …
Tom Paine, Infidel
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: T OK P A I NE ~ I N F I DE L {An Imaginative Episode) By Theodore Pratt Theodore G. Pratt All rights are QS DI :JcJ ea Pl~• reserved. by the Hew i1eb1JJa, Ha¥. author. / #II" e ttttl-- ~... e Ne_,- ~r/~ ,,-v.y, ~/"l> tf "V~I? CHARACTERS: MRS. ALLEN -- …
That Was Palm Beach
Type: Mixed Material
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Book cover
Full Text: Related Books on Florida History DR. TURNBULL AND THE NEW SMYRNA COLONY: By Carita Doggett Corse. The author spent three years of research to get the true and objective facts on Dr. Turnbull. Footnotes and bibiliography will help the student of …
Tropical Disturbance
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: ,. 1. I I / I _/_ /I c------ON A BEAU'I1 FUL ~ALM summer Sunday morning, just off the ocean shore at the small town of Coquina Beach, about midway between Miami and the Palm Beaches 1 two scuba divers emerged from the placi ;J mild blue water. One was a …
Remainders and Their Authors
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: Recently I ran across a splendid example of whet saps we writers a.re :in accapt in~ the so-called business arrangement~ ba.ving to do with the sales of our books. le • "Jhj_l e spending an 0-i ght-hour· day at the library in a small . uob-lot 1tremaim er …
The Instrument
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Includes submission log
Full Text: THE INSTRUMENT By THEODORE PRATT The old sedan, Lucy thought as she brought it to a stop in the southwest part of Los Angeles, was just about holding together and no more. She leaned over from the wheel to the right window and gazed at her destination. It …
The Barefoot Mailman
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: ,. Original manuscript of: THE BARBP'OOT MAILl_fAN By THEODOI.E PRATT , ,. .,.. , THE BAREFOOT MAILMAN By THEODORE PRATT l \ \ I , J ., / ,,. , , )t Iv Appro.xima-te±Y-&&,-000 -words. ,.. I P. ( I' , Address: nia Rice ~ lfest 72nd Stre t New York, N. Y. …
Smash-Up
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: Original manuscript of: SMASH-UP By 1'H.~0D0RE PRATT • Original manuscript of: S MA S H - U P By THEODORE PRATT TH EODORZ PRA71 ( 75,000 words. 90''. ., BOC/\ l:1 TO.I, rLORiDA J \ /#lltJ H- u? \ \ - 4'H ~ ACCIDEN1r - I By ( To be published by old Medal …
Three Articles
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Original manuscript of "The Royal Poinciana; Grandest of All Hotels"; "World's Most Exclusive Gambling Place"; "Palm Beach's Marble Palace"with notes more
Full Text: Three articles: THE ROYAL POINCIANA, GRANDEST OF ALL HOTELS WORLD'S MOST EXCLUSIVE GAMBLING PLACE PALM BEACH'S MARBLE PALACE By Theodore Pratt Route 1, Box 801 Delray Beach, Florida 33444 Phone: 305-278-2290 These articles are c: urrently being published …
Little Samson
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: ,. LITTLE S!i\!SON (A Play in Three ·i.Acts) By Theodore Pratt Copxyright, b ~ ~ Characters; HENRY SAMSON. RUTH AYLOR. MRS . THOMAS TAYLOR•.• ALICE DAVIS. EDDIE DAVIS. GEORGE KING, H~-ctISOU . ' WILLIE KEEFE. McKANE. ,, ACT I -- The living-room of the …
Bernard Papy -- Dreamer
Type: Text
Year: 1954, 1954
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: BERNARD PAPY -- DREAMER By THEODORE PRATT Route 1, Box 801 Delray Beach, Florida Frmm the December, 1954 issue of FANTASTIC UNIVERSE. Reprint rights held by author. Bernard Papy -dream.er by ... Theodore Pratt The world .didn't have too high an opinion of …
More Valuable Dead
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Includes submission log and letter from Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine more
Full Text: I The work of an artist becomes more valuable after he is dead, and this was true, in a slightly different way, of Amadeo Gid1an1, who always put the date of a painting after his signature. MORE VALUABLE DEAD By THEODORE PRATT 5, 5)0 words. First North …
Cracker's Hurricane
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: First section and brief outline of the rest of the story of a new novel -- CRACKER'S HURRICANE By THEODORE PRATT Theodore Pratt 3502 E. Harvard Street Phoenix, Arizona THERE IS JUST ONE thing you 1 ve got to believe about Piper Peeple. This is that he was …
The Night of August 18th on 23rd Street
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: THE NIGHT OF AUGUST 18th ON 23rd STREET By Theodore Pratt 1500 words. First North American Serial Rights Only. Please take out periodical copyright in name of author. Theodore Pratt Route 1, Box 801 Delray Beach, Florida 33444 THE NIGHT OF AUGUST 18th ON …
Robert Robot
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Alternative title Robert. Published in "Catholic Youth", January 1964. more
Full Text: ·fflEODORE PRATl 2600 lf'O . 8 •t,rtt _ tt.h •. med.cm, \ serial tUQhta Only. \ \ I \ I \ I By When h• appeand at the dootr he sal . t once, ttt am RObot.• "R.e1> en1" l alk.ed. o, Rotaot. 1 have been lent••• "Robert, 11 I repeetec11 he val81 t fooling •• …
Gold Medal Books
Type: Text
Year: 1952, 1952
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Article printed in Report to Writers
Full Text: Of interest to reader, writer, and publisher alike is the issuance of the paper-back, pocket-size, original novel, which threatens, or promises, to effect profound changes in the world of books. Of most importance to us, of course, is the effect on the …
Seminole
Type: Mixed Material
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Book cover
Full Text: $4.50 EMINOLE A novel of OSCEOLA, Florida's great Indian war-chief SEMINOLE A novel of OSCEOLA, Florida's great Indian war-chief by THEODORE PRATT A dramatic novel of early Florida, this is the story of Osceola, the great Seminole chief who led his people …
My Love in the Mangroves
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Includes correspondence from Fawcett Publications, Inc.
Full Text: MY LOVE IN THE MANGROVES By THEuDvRE PF~TT Autbor's Note: This is a 21,000 version in first-pers~n confession style ~f my 0riginal pRperback nrvel, ESCAPE TO ED~N, issued by Gold Medal in 1953. Thend~re Pratt Rnute 1, Box 8Ql Delray Beach, Flcrida Clymie …
There's Nothing Like Sailing
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: I / I' ( IBERE 1 S NO'IHING LIKE SAILING .--By THEODORE ?'l(ATT I was ratter surprised when Charlie asked me to go sailing with him. I never lmew he had a boat or could sail. "Oh he assured me w1 th that absent confidence he always had. , yes ,~ 11 "Am …
God and I Will Be Friends Again
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Includes a submission log.
Full Text: GOD AND I WILL BE FRIENDS AGAIN By THEODORE PRATT 2500 words. Theodore Pratt Re-worked section from~ Tormented, original paperback novel published by Fawcett ·Publications, 1950, out of print since 1955, sold over a million and a quarter copies. Book will …
St. Patrick's Parade
Type: Text
Year: 1953, 1953
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Article printed in The Pelican; a local Boca Raton newsletter
Full Text: 1 I Fairi and '}arm. EXHl3IT ST. PATRICK'S PARADE The annual exh bition of the Guild of E ca Raton which is in procress ow in the Cloister Lounce o 3oca R~ton Hotel has e.ttract d hundreds of visitors up and dorn-i the ecst cos,st, many of ·1hom hc.ve …
Medicine Show
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Includes manuscript notes.
Full Text: From the novel, .Handsome, The New York Times, and Health Educa tion . MEDICINE-SHOW One of the things that Ha.ndsome most enjoyed in h1s experience of going a.round Flori da to s e life was getting a job with an old-time ~edicine- show . T~i was making a …
Socrates
Type: Text
Year: 1925, 1925
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: SOCRATES (A play in one act arter the classical accounts of Plato and Xenephon, being a paraphrasing and re-shaping from, and imaginative addition to, these writings) by THEODORE PRATT Copyright, 1925 All rights reserved From: Virginia Rice 18 East 41st …
World's Fastest Spender
Type: Text
Year: 1956, 1956
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Article regarding Arthur Vining Davis printed in Look
Full Text: L II World's fastest spender By THEODORE PRATT Arthur Vining Davis' spending projects are of truly heroic proportions: • $500,000 to improve a single estate • The worul' s biggest orchid nursery • An entire Florida island • $22,500,000 for a hotel which …
Mr. Winkle Goes to War
Type: Text
Year: 1943, 1943
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Omnibook, Inc.
Full Text: OMHIB K Special edition for the armed forces, containing authorized abridgements of three current best-selling books These books are abridged in the authors' own words through special royalty arrangement with the original publishers. PAGE CoLONEL CARLOS …
Florida Roundabout
Type: Mixed Material
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Book cover
Full Text: $3.95 Florida Roundabout by THEODORE PRATT Hailed by The Miami Herald as "the literary laureate of Florida," Theodore Pratt has written more about Florida than any other author, past or present. His best-known works are the Florida trilogy of THE BAREFOOT …
Cash Cargo
Type: Text
Year: 1935, 1935
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: A hort- story : C .R G O 'Iheodore J> t-att )600 word$-. Route 1, J'Jox 818 Jllrst ubl1ahed 1n 'llte ~'vening Fire:t orth American Serial Bight Only" Stand,u-d, ondon, England, 1935, "' Da,l ray lie .011,. Florida 00 C 1n 1'ront ot ~• M dull green ar ored …
Place of Dreams Untold
Type: Text
Year: 1957, 1957
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Article printed in New York Times Sunday Magazine and The Irish Digest
Full Text: ----,u,,: rrI it..) 1-t I) I(;,~J T; Ja.,_ u~ ,_,. /'1 r,-;f This famous American artists' colony w~ created and sustained by a wmnan's devotion. She and her composer husband were of Irish descent "' Place of Dreams Untold" THEODORE PRATT NE of the …
The Tormented
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: Ori.g inal manuscript of i 'rHI '1'0IMBlmlD By TRBODOU PMTr ti This is a carbon copy because the first top copy of the typed manuscript was WDh out in a period of fifteen )'ea1t'& of au:bad.~lt to thirty.four publtahera. '1'he 3Sth, Gold Medal Books, …
Zora Neale Hurston
Type: Text
Year: 1961, 1961
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Article published in The Florida Historical Quarterly, 1961 v 40, n.1, pp 35-40.
Full Text: ZORA NEALE HURSTON by Theodore Pratt ZORA NEALE HURSTON by Theodore Pratt For many years, when giving talks in Florida, I have pointed out that there is only one first-class native-born Florida author . who has written any even small body of work about …
Mercy Island-Inscription
Type: Text
Year: 1941, 1941
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Book inscription
Full Text: MERCY ISLAND VER FIRST INSIDE CO '· black PAGE written 1.n en and ink: 1941, For mv mo~her, 'thout whom th1.s w1. ld never have book co~ with all been wr1.tten,. • love & affect1.on -Theodore (Pratt) BY THEODORE PRATT This scrap paper is acid-free. ALFRED …
Sabine Farm
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: Theodore Pratt 4, Rue du Pare Montsouris Paris, 14e •. SABINE F.ARM Miss Winship was delighted to find that the people of the French farm just outside of the town of Lun:ville on the Meurthe ~id not think it strange that a girl should want to take their …
The Barefoot Mailman
Type: Mixed Material
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Book cover
Full Text: SEVENTH LARGE PRINTING $2.75 THE BAREFOOT MAILMAN By Theodore Pratt BAREFOOT MAILMAN The Barefoot Mailman is a romantic adventure story of Florida which Theodore Pratt knows so well and has written of in three widely hailed earlier novels. Big Blow, Mercy …
Literary Tea
Type: Text
Year: 1957, 1957
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Description: Includes a published version in Esquire Magazine
Full Text: So :r . G. t looke .. f rw 1 nl:; bad tea t.1 t. .uow, bafor•o le vir.J , h1 a1 · :r1 c utrol hie ~ s s ho e. aro1nc t 11.ln, comp le •1 n ,.v te .;... ant lie ha· sJ.cc l done •s 1e •a,' b t -- tt :lla 1 s been t ad1e . lt p aine b eh$ 1n t re t a ll\U 0 …
Barefoot Mailman in Archives of Library of Congress
Type: Text
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: It has taken nearly a quarter of a century, hut now Florida's barefoot mailman is to be included in the archives of the Library of Congress. In 1943 Theodore Pratt of Delray Beach wrote his book, "The Barefoot Mailman, 11 which has hecor.1e famous and …
Mr. Limpet
Type: Text
Year: 1942, 1942
Member of: Theodore Pratt Collection
Contributors: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University Digital Library
Full Text: Original manus cript of: Ml.. LIMPET By THEODORE PRATI' ~~~ Published, 1942, by Alfred A. Knopf, New York . Written before the U. S.A. Bn e ed World War II, with the expectation that we would enter, it was the first book published with- us in the war. In …