Word: putnam
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Florenz Ziegfeld has written the preface to "Secrets of Charm", by Josephine Huddleston, which Putnam's have published this week. The book is having its premiere at the first annual National Beauty Show which is being held at Grand Central Palace. New York City, March 27 April 3, where Miss Huddleston is Official Mistress of Ceremonies for the week...
...happiest people in the world, in my belief, are the natives of the Congo," asserted P. T. L. Putnam '25, who has just returned home to Boston after a year spent in the wilds of equatorial Africa, where he has been studying the life and customs of the negroes. "And so I'm not at all sure that the entrance of civilization into the jungle will benefit them...
...Putnam left in October, 1927, as assistant to F. R. Wulsin '12 who had been sent to make anthropological studies in the French Soudan. Entering through the Belgium Congo, Mr. Wulsin was so impressed with the opportunity for research work that he left his associate there to carry out the task. Mr. Putnam spent all last year making observations and collecting native implements and products, which have already been sent to the University Museum...
...speak, peer or signal. At the same time Harvard's "ten brightest" took the same examination under like conditions in Cambridge. The Harvard men made the highest marks and thereby won a "brain contest" originated and financed-with a foundation of $125,000-by Mrs. William Lowell Putnam, sister of Harvard's President. The victors' spoils were $5,000 worth of books (TIME...
...Harper '30 was the only backfield letter man present yesterday, but Arthur Huguley '31 and E. T. Putnam ocC are both expected in a few days. Baseball has claimed the attention of T. W. Gilligan '31 and S. L. Batchelder '31, two promising Sophomores on the squad last fall so that they will not be out for spring practice. Several Freshman candidates who made their numerals on the first-year team this year were also in uniform...