Word: putnam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard Endowment Fund has just finished its most dynamic year in three centuries as its market value increased $57,000,000 to a record high of $365,000,000, the Putnam Management Company reported yesterday...
...present heavy concentration in relatively few stocks is quite a contrast to the policy that prevailed in 1948 when Mr. Cabot became treasurer," the Putnam study state. "Then Harvard had 187 common stocks in a stock portfolio of $86,000,000. Today it has 168 stocks worth...
MAMMY PLEASANT'S PARTNER, by Helen Holdredge (300 pp.; Putnam; $4.50), a follow-up on last year's intriguing Mammy Pleasant, tells what happened in brash, crime-infested 19th century San Francisco when an unprincipled Scotsman, fleeing a murky past, teamed up with a ruthless quadroon beauty, in pursuit of a glittering future. Mammy was born a Georgia slave. She had a wasp waist and an eagle eye, and when she bared her claws neither slow prey nor a fast buck had a chance of getting away. Among other things, Mammy was a madame who lavishly entertained...
...made vice president in 1931, executive vice president in 1940, and from 1944 on also supervised the bank's major loans (e.g., to Henry Kaiser, Israel, etc.). Given the chairmanship as an honorarium, he will retire on his 6 5th birthday next May. ¶ Carleton Putnam, 52, announced that he would step down as board chairman of Atlanta's Delta Air Lines, Inc. this week. A well-to-do Princeton graduate ('24), Putnam bought his own plane, became so enthusiastic about flying that he formed Chicago & Southern Air Lines in 1934. When C. & S. merged with Delta...
LOST SPLENDOR, by Prince Felix Youssoupoff (307 pp.; Putnam; $4.50), offers the memoirs of the scion of one of Rus sia's great feudal families. Prince Youssoupoff's great-grandmother was Emperor Nicholas I's mistress, and his great-greatgrandfather was a lover of Catherine the Great. The old rake was so rich he had a private theater and ballet, and so dissolute that when he waved his cane all dancers appeared on stage stark naked. Young Prince Felix married a niece of the Czar, vowed he would save the 300-year-old Romanoff dynasty by assassinating...