Word: putnam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dark old countinghouse at Church and Chambers Streets in Downtown Manhattan, with old-fashioned desks, high-backed chairs, an ancient parlor stove, some 60 years ago went a Vermonter named Henry William Putnam to merchandise and distribute his invention-a bottle stopper. Mr. Putnam and his bottle stopper began to make money. Mr. Putnam also invented a glass fruit jar, made more money. In 1898 when, grown old and tired, Mr. Putnam called his son into his office and turned the business over to him, it was worth...
William B. D. Putnam '41 has been elected second assistant Baseball manager, John L. Allen '39, Varsity manager, announced yesterday. Albert E. Schall '41 has been appointed alternate. Putnam will automatically become manager in his Senior year...
George Palmer Putnam, husband of the late Flier Amelia Earhart and publisher of a book called The Man Who Killed Hitler: 1) told the press he had received no less than three letters threatening him with death and worse if he did not withdraw the book from circulation; 2) got published in Liberty another serial about his wife's disappearance; 3) learned that Mother-in-Law Amy Otis Earhart, 61, was getting ready to move from Boston, Mass, to Berkeley, Calif, so she could be near the spot (Oakland) where her daughter took off on her last flight...
...work on The Doctor's Dilemma, he stopped off in Manhattan long enough to announce his future plans: a repertory company to make two Shaw pictures a year and, in 1940, a film biography of Amelia Earhart, to be made with the assistance of her husband, George Palmer Putnam, and a score by Conductor Leopold Stokowski after the expiration of his present 18-month contract with Walt Disney...
...pound class Al Richter of Harvard encounters sophomore George Tsolas of the home forces, and Bruce Richardson of the Crimson faces Charley Streeter in the 145. Bunny Barnes of Harvard draws another Sophomore for his opponent in the 155 pound division, as he faces Steve Putnam...