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...business of the Manhattan Putnams is publishing. Major George Haven Putnam, 84-year-old son of the founder of the business, last week demonstrated that he does not lag behind his able nephew, George Palmer Putnam, or his grandnephew, David Binney Putnam, in exercising the sinew of publishing, publicity. When newsgatherers interviewed Major Putnam upon his return from a visit to England, he was ready for them with alarming news. He had never, he said, formally become a U. S. citizen. He was in the habit of voting in England as well as in the U. S. Further...
...cross country race (one point for the best examination paper, 20 points for the worst). Two Harvard undergraduates-Nathan M. Pusey of Council Bluffs, Iowa, and James L. McLane of Garrison, Md.-finished first and second. Yale's best, George T. Washington of Detroit, great -grandnephew of Father -of -His -Country George Washington, finished third. Harvard's reward is $5,000 worth of books given by Mrs. William Lowell Putnam, sister of President Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard...
...lawyer, grandnephew of Daniel Webster, willed $964,000 of his more than $1,000,000 estate to Dartmouth College, along with photographs and the favorite armchair of Daniel Webster...
...only U. S. Navy flier to qualify officially as an "ace" in the War was David Sinton Ingalls, a quizzical, shock-headed grandnephew of William Howard Taft. He left his class at Yale to fly and was 18 years old when the Armistice was signed. Ace Ingalls went back to college with his decorations in his pocket and applied himself to the harder heroics of graduating and getting a law degree. Then he married, was twice a father, practiced law quietly in his native Cleveland, entered the Ohio legislature. Rich, he never returned to France; but proceeded, by interesting himself...
Believers in the maxim, "Blood will tell," made much of this story of John C. Lodge, whose grandnephew, as all Detroit knows, is Charles Augustus Lindbergh...