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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission
on March 26, 1996
Registration No. 33-59996
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
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Post-Effective
Amendment No. 1 to
Form S-3
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Under
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
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SPRINT CORPORATION
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Kansas 48-0457967
(State of incorporation) (I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)
Post Office Box 11315, Kansas City, Missouri 64112,
(913) 624-3000
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number,
including area code, of registrant's principal
executive offices)
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DON A. JENSEN
Vice President and Secretary
Sprint Corporation
P.O. Box 11315
Kansas City, Missouri 64112
Telephone (913) 624-3326
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone
number, including area code, of agent for service)
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Sprint Corporation ("Sprint") has heretofore filed
Registration Statement No. 33-59996 (the "Registration
Statement") which registered 273,819 shares of Sprint Common
Stock, par value $2.50 per share (the "Common Stock"), for
issuance upon conversion of shares of Convertible Junior
Preferred Stock, stated value $10 per share, of Central Telephone
Company (the "CTC Preferred Stock"). 194,531 shares of the
Common Stock have been issued upon the conversion of CTC
Preferred Stock. The remaining shares of CTC Preferred stock
were redeemed on January 16, 1996. Therefore, no additional
shares will be issued upon conversion of the CTC Preferred Stock.
The Registration Statement is being amended to deregister the
remaining 79,288 shares of Common Stock.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933,
the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to
believe that it meets all the requirements for filing on Form S-3
and has duly caused this Amendment to the Registration Statement
to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, in the City of Westwood, State of Kansas, on the 25th
day of March, 1996.
SPRINT CORPORATION
By /s/ A. B. Krause
(A. B. Krause, Executive Vice President)
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933,
this Amendment to the Registration Statement has been signed by
the following persons in the capacities and on the date
indicated.
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Name Title Date
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Chairman of the Board )
and Chief Executive )
Officer (Principal Executive )
W. T. ESREY* Officer) )
)
Executive Vice President )
and Chief Financial Officer )
/s/ A. B. Krause (Principal Financial Officer) )
(A. B. Krause) )
)
Senior Vice President and )
Controller )
(Principal Accounting ) March 25, 1996
/s/ J. P. Meyer Officer) )
(J. P. Meyer) )
)
DUBOSE AUSLEY * Director )
)
WARREN L. BATTS * Director )
)
)
(Michele Bon) Director )
)
RUTH M. DAVIS * Director )
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)
DONALD J. HALL * Director )
)
HAROLD S. HOOK * Director )
)
)
(Ronald T. LeMay) Director )
) March 25, 1996
LINDA K. LORIMER * Director )
)
CHARLES E. RICE * Director )
)
)
(Ron Summer) Director )
)
STEWART TURLEY * Director )
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/s/ A. B. Krause
* (A.B. Krause, as Attorney-in-Fact for
each of the officers and directors,
pursuant to Power of Attorney filed with
this Registration Statement No.
33-59996)
