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Henry Putnam Jr. tripled his father's fortune, came at last to old age and the problem of how to dispose of the gains from 60 years of grubbing by one of the cagiest father-son money-making teams in U. S. history. A bachelor, Henry Putnam Jr. consulted no one, cocked his feet on his old desk, wrote a will. Last year he died. Last week it became known that after specific bequests to hospitals and other charities, he left the bulk of his estate, $8,000,000, to four female cousins, all over 70; that, although...
...Battleship's trainer was Reginald Hobbs; Battleship's jockey Bruce Hobbs, 17, the youngest British professional jockey, youngest ever to win the race. Together they were the first father-son, trainer-jockey combination to carry off the Grand National...
...famed father. Golf he dislikes as it shows nothing for the effort. He prefers chopping wood. The Buster Brown cut of the thick hair, the flowing black silk tie, the wide-brimmed felt hat of the founder have been adopted (and greatly modified) by the son. But here the father-son resemblance ends. Many changes have come to the Shops. In the early days all of the workers were shareholders; profits were split; Hubbard the First took a salary of $50 a week. Now the Roycrofters looks like any other family-owned company. Assets are about $700,000; there...