Word: putnam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...departure from G. P. Putnam & Sons of George Palmer Putnam was almost as newsworthy as the deal itself. In the past decade he has made himself conspicuous on the publishing scene. He is a man with the dangerous combination of literary ability, business acumen, energy. From him the story of his life is a well and probably oft told tale. Eastern-bred, he went to the University of California for his health. He might not say that if he were not so impressively healthy today. After a brief early connection with G. P. Putnam's Sons, he went...
...rolling stone thus returned evinced much flair as a publicist. Expeditions to strange places took his fancy. He developed a close contact with the New York Times and put G. P. Putnam's Sons into the business of publishing expeditions. Putnam books this autumn, for example, include Richard Evelyn Byrd's Little America, Scout Paul Siple's A Boy Scout With Byrd, volumes by Sea-Diver William Beebe, Artist-Explorer Rockwell Kent, Jungle-Tramper Mrs. Martin Johnson. Even Publisher Putnam's son has been publicized as an explorer (David Goes A-Voyaging by David Binney Putnam...
...Putnam prominence in aviation publishing (Lindbergh's We, Harry Frank Guggenheim's The Seven Skies) is also traceable to this versatile Putnam, who was among Amelia Earhart's backers and helped produce Wings, This venture into cinema led to the formation of Talking Picture Epics, Inc., George Palmer Putnam, vice president, producers of Com- modore George M. Dyott's Hunting Tigers in India, Across the World with Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson, Robert Cushman Murphy's Bottom of the World...
What Publicist Putnam intends to do in the future is not known. He may expand his cinematic activities, may publish on his own, may retire, may go off exploring Perhaps he will do all these things. His cryptic statement of plans last week was this: "If you played golf twelve years, you wouldn't stop all at once, would...
...firm with which G. P. Putnam's Sons will merge (through an exchange of stock) has published John Dewey's The Quest for Certainty and Alice Grant Rosman's present big-selling The Young and Secret. Minton, Balch & Co., Inc. for the immediate future at least, will be run as a separate department, "benefiting from the wide Putnam scope. Palmer Cosslet Putnam's new partners are Melville Minton. 45. a big-chested, hardworking salesman with a business head; and Earle Balch, 36, the curly-headed, smiling, amiable, pianoplaying, song-singing, artistic half of the combination...