Word: putnam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Probably the most frightening effect of the flood occurred at Putnam, Conn, (pop. 8,200), where the flood destroyed a magnesium plant, setting off white-hot fires. All through one terrifying night, the citizens of Putnam cringed in their homes while hundreds of barrels of burning magnesium floated in the streets, sending geysers of white-hot metal 250 feet...
TIGER OF THE SNOWS (294 pp.)-The Autobiography of Tenzing of Everest, written in collaboration with James Ramsey Ullman-Putnam...
...SHALL MARCH AGAIN (374 pp.)-Gerhard Kramer-Putnam...
...TWELVE PICTURES, by Edith Simon (367 pp.; Putnam; $3.95), is bathed in eerie, sth century Teutonic mists as British Novelist Simon (The Golden Hand) retells the dark, doom-laden Nibelungenlied. The events in it are drawn from somewhat different sources from the ones Wagner used in his familiar brooding operas. Siegfried, hero of the Rhine, jilts Brunhilde and marries a princess of Burgundy named Kriemhild. Brunhilde, a kind of earth-mother goddess, carries a torch for her lost love, but Hagen, the One-eyed, who believes the pagan gods have been flouted by this turn of affairs, pries from Kriemhild...
...competition was established in 1938 by Mrs. William Lowell Putnam...