Word: putnam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most women pilots, the prime ambition of testy little Laura Ingalls is to outdo the famed exploits of tousle-headed Amelia Earhart Putnam. Since last April Miss Ingalls, trying extra hard, has concentrated on the long-standing Earhart non-stop record across the U. S. from West to East. Her first attempt fizzled in Colorado, her next in Indiana. Disgruntled, she tried her hand at non-stop flying from East to West, was the first woman to succeed at it (TIME, July 22). Last week, she was again ready to tackle the West-East flight...
...Young, aged 60; William Green, 62; Psychologist Charles Hubbard Judd, 62; Bishop Francis John McConnell, 63; President Ernest Hiram Lindley of the University of Kansas, 65; Inventor Hiram Percy Maxim, 65, Publisher Bernarr Macfadden, 66. Some youngsters also got on the committee: A. A. Berle Jr., 40; Amelia Earhart Putnam...
...waters of Saratoga Springs. American "Continentals," sickened, wounded and soiled by the Revolutionary War, went there to cleanse and heal themselves. After the Revolution George Washington, whose wife spent considerable part of her wartime grass-widowhood at Virginia's warm springs, tried to buy Saratoga Springs, failed. Gideon Putnam bought 300 acres around the springs, built a hotel, made the place a health resort. In 1825 John Clarke, who started the first soda fountain in Manhattan, began to bottle and sell carbonated water from Saratoga. By 1883 Saratoga hotels had a capacity of 12,500, sheltered 100,000 costive...
...UNCROWNED KING ? Baroness Orczy ? Putnam ($2). Expert historical romance by the author of The Scarlet Pimpernel, dealing with a supposed career of the lost Dauphin...
...CLOUDS IN THE SKIES OF THE FAR EAST ? Tom Ireland ? Putnam ($2.75). Sober, highly documented analysis of Japanese expansion, and a critical discussion of U. S. Far Eastern policy...