Word: putnam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three undergraduates have won $400 for the University and $40 for themselves by taking first place as a team in the William Lowell Putnam intercollegiate mathematics competition...
...highly destructive stabs through unoffending brain tissue before the surgeon can feel sure he has cut the nerve bundles that join the thalamus (probably the seat of basic anxiety) to the frontal lobes of the cortex (where anxiety and pain are felt intellectually). Los Angeles' Dr. Tracy J. Putnam has devised a way of driving two hollow needles precisely into the chosen nerve bundles. These are then destroyed by seeds of radon (a radioactive gas) dropped down the needles...
...BOOK OF BEASTS (296 pp.)-Translated by T. H. White-Putnam...
Without a fine performance in the role of the girl, Ann Putnam, the atmosphere of the witch trials would be difficult to understand. But Abigail Lewis plays the part of the accuser with a shocking mixture of malice and unbalance that makes the contagion of her hysteria easily believable. The passion of her seizures punctuates the sober dialogues of her elders and the dignity of courtroom procedure with the note of tension that lies beneath the whole action of the play. As her bewildered father, Layton Zimmer gives the weakest of the major performances, and fails adequately to show...
Dressed in the awesome uniform of a jet pilot, the visitor from outer space brought noise and confusion to the supposedly sound-proof study halls. Assistant Librarian P. A. Putnam was unable to extract a bursar's card from the intruder, Putnam did, however, manage to eject the spaceman from the premises. The CRIMSON photographer was also exiled...