Word: putnam
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Amelia Earhart became a good friend of Eleanor Roosevelt who shared her belief that women should not stand in the shadow of men. In 1931 she married Publisher George Palmer Putnam, who never dissuaded her from flying wherever she wanted to go. Keynote of Mrs. Putnam's career was the title of her book, The Fun Of It. But she professed interest also in the scientific aspect of flying. She became a consulting member of Purdue University's faculty, specializing in aeronautics and careers for women, and last year acquired a Wasp-motored Lockheed Electra which was supposed...
...thing Amelia Earhart Putnam still wanted to do?for the fun of it?was to fly around the world. She started from Miami, Fla. on June i with Fred Noonan, onetime Pan American navigator. They made mostly back page news until last fortnight when they started across 2,550 miles of Pacific Ocean toward tiny Howland Island, failed to reach it. Last week the likelihood was approaching sad certainty that Amelia Earhart Putnam had made headlines for the last time...
...Oakland, Calif., Miss Earhart's publicity-minded husband, George Palmer Putnam, went to comfort Mrs. Beatrice Noonan. Said he: "I have a hunch they are sitting somewhere on a coral island. . . . Fred's probably out sitting on a rock now catching their dinner with those fishing lines they had aboard. There'll be driftwood to make a fire. . . ." When this failed to cheer Mrs. Noonan, Mr. Putnam snapped: "It's this way. Bee. One of two things have happened. Either they were killed outright-and that must come to all of us sooner or later...
After flying from Dakar to Khartum, Africa, on a world-girdling flight, Amelia Earhart Putnam telephoned the New York Herald Tribune: "In the central parts of Africa that we've seen, highways appear entirely lacking...
...Billings prize, of $150, awarded in annual competition at the Divinity School for "improvement in pulpit delivery," has been divided between Clarke M. Cochrane, of Albany, New York; and Benjamin P. Dean, of Putnam, Connecticut...