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...close contact with the New York Times and put G. P. Putnam's Sons into the business of publishing expeditions. Putnam books this autumn, for example, include Richard Evelyn Byrd's Little America, Scout Paul Siple's A Boy Scout With Byrd, volumes by Sea-Diver William Beebe, Artist-Explorer Rockwell Kent, Jungle-Tramper Mrs. Martin Johnson. Even Publisher Putnam's son has been publicized as an explorer (David Goes A-Voyaging by David Binney Putnam, in 1928 when...
...Representative William Robert Wood of Indiana, 69-year-old chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, held his breath and dithered with excitement while a Negro diver went over the side of a boat from which Mr. Wood was trolling off Balboa, C. Z. The diver disentangled from the propeller Mr. Wood's fishline, at the end of which was a 10-ft., 127-lb. sail fish, which Mr. Wood then landed...
...Eldridge Reeves Johnson, wife of the founder of Victor Talking Machine Co., on board a yacht anchored in the Johnson yacht basin at Bridgeboro, N. J., dropped a $2,000 bracelet overboard in 20 ft. of water, hired a diver to hunt...
...Hell Diver...
...plane somewhat resembles the Vought Corsair in appearance but has the swept-back wings of the Curtiss Falcon. Since all Curtiss planes are named for birds (Robin, Condor, Thrush, etc., etc.) the new, one has been tentatively dubbed Hell Diver...