Word: putnam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...explain all these circumstances, as usual, baffled everyone. After a week of investigation by Air Commerce Director Eugene L. Vidal himself, no one had produced a better explanation than Chicago & Southern's President Carleton Putnam. Numbed by the first fatal accident in his company's three-year history, he groaned: "It was one of those things that can't happen but still...
MOTHER OF THE BRIDE-Alice Grant Rosman-Putnam ($2). An adept at pleasant solution of English middle-class family problems, Author Rosman deftly pilots three sets of lovers to a happy landing in a fluffy tale which should meet the clamor for hot-weather entertainment...
...ISLANDS-Gerald Warner Brace- Putnam ($2.50). Readable biographic novel of a seafaring Maine lad whom a wealthy Boston spinster adopts, polishes, pushes through Harvard and almost into an unfortunate marriage. Author Brace does not quite succeed in making his taciturn hero as appealing as the more articulate, minor characters...
BEYOND SING THE WOODS-Trygve Gulbranssen-Putnam ($2.50). The saga of a powerful Norwegian family which dominates the countryside, partly through superstition, partly through usury. Skill in narration, a lyric prose, an interesting milieu, save the novel from childishness by a narrow margin...
...Putnam Aldrich will be the guest of the Lowell House Musical Society the evening of Easter Sunday, and will present a concert of harpsichord music. The program will include works from all the great composers for the harpsichord. In addition the House Choral Society will sing several numbers. The concert will be in the Common Room and is scheduled to begin...