Word: putnam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Major Putnam Bradlee ("Putty") Strong, 71, onetime "handsomest man in the U.S. Army," whose sentimental jour neys (contemporary estimate: 41,339 miles) and subsequent nuptials with mad cap Actress May Yohe, then Lady (Hope Diamond) Hope, were accompanied by an international obbligato of tongue-clacking and ended in a 1910 divorce after she accused him of pawning $300,000 worth of her jewels; in University...
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...SURVIVED-The Life Story of a Russian under the Soviets-Alexander Barmine-Putnam...
Married. George Palmer Putnam, 57, author, explorer, wild-animal hunter, pet-collector, ex-Army major, ex-publisher, husband of Flyer Amelia Earhart when she disappeared in 1937 on a trans-Pacific flight; and Margaret Haviland, 36, U.S.O. executive; he for the fourth time, she for the first; in San Marino, Calif...
Divorced. By Christine Cromwell White, 23, only daughter of onetime Diplomat James (Jimmy) H. R. Cromwell, ex-husband of Doris Duke: Frederic Putnam White, 25, Boston socialite, now a Navy boatswain's mate; after four years of marriage (two children); in West Palm Beach, Fla. To get her uncontested divorce, Dodge Auto Heiress White gave her mother-in-law custody of the two children, agreed to toss in a couple of $1,000,000 trust funds for them...