Word: putnam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard police patrolling the Peabody Terrace area Tuesday afternoon caught two men with a pipe wrench and later found an estimated $5000 in stolen goods that were stored inside their car parked on Putnam Ave., Captain Jeffrey S. Kahn said yesterday...
...editor at Putnam, an old New York City publishing firm, young Chase could not decide whether to be a writer, a pianist, a drummer or an actor. Says his father: "He was a quadruple threat." So Chevy did everything. In 1971 he wrote for and acted in The Great American Dream Machine, PBS's comedy series. Then he toured with several rock bands and spent a year writing for Mad magazine. In 1973 he combined all his talents, becoming music director, writer and actor on the National Lampoon Theater Company's off-Broadway revue Lemmings, which he helped...
...DORA RUSSELL 304 pages. Putnam...
GREAT BOOKS AND BOOK COLLECTORS by Alan G. Thomas. 280 pages. Putnam. $35. An opulently illustrated, often witty guide to bibliophilia and its causes (there is no cure). Author Thomas, a London book dealer, discusses everything from early illuminated manuscripts to the feats of the best printers, bookbinders, illustrators, forgers and dupes. Happily, descriptions focus on people rather than techniques. Of J.P. Morgan, last of the profligate collectors, Thomas writes with typical piquancy: "He pursued the life of an unostentatious gentleman on a majestic scale...
...that's bad news for the budget administrators, who view the empty beds as lost tuition, room and board revenue. How much the absent students are costing the Faculty is unclear, but University Treasurer George F. Putnam '49 said this week he thinks the impact could be "definite and negative...