Word: putnam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Good helmsmanship by Captain David Noyes and his fellow skipper Roger Putnam gave the Crimson second honors with 69 points in the first division of the Regatta which was raced in two parts. The first division was topped by the crew of Emil Mosbacher and Warner Willcox of Dartmouth, who garnered 78 points...
LOVER OF LIFE-Zsolf de Harsanyi-Putnam...
White-bearded, beaming Talbot Hamlin, an architect who has built houses, banks and colleges from Nanking to Manhattan, settled down eight years ago as librarian of the Avery Library to view architecture from the sidelines and to write the finest popular book (Architecture Through the Ages; Putnam; $6) in English on its history. Though he views the past greatness of Mexican architecture with a historian's enthusiasm, he believes that the best contemporary Latin-American architecture is being done by the Argentines and Brazilians, who today are rivaling the finest modern architects of the U.S. and Europe...
FIVE ALARM FUNERAL-Stewart Sterling-Putnam ($2). Criminally induced holocausts in New York City, as well as several murders, a spot of acid hurling and dirty work among the smoke-eaters, are all traced to the proper parties by Chief Fire Marshal Ben Pedley. Refreshing new scene, robust talk, unflagging action, and a completely cockeyed motive-which readers may ignore without spoiling the yarn...
...special interest to the beer-drinking Harvard population is the Union's assertion that two steine of beer have the same effect as a glass of whiskey, and that a person can easily get drunk on beer. A beer-drunk, according to Mrs. Putnam, is the most bestial, low type there...