Word: putnam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Real estate brokers estimate that Harvard could have gotten two to three times what Land-Vast paid for the land, which was willed to the University in 1969 by Charles Russell Lowell Putnam, a wealthy New York surgeon. Proceeds from the sale of the estate were to go to the Medical School...
...pages. Putnam...
...opening work, Ives's "Three Places in New England," began with uncertain attacks and a messy climax in the first movement, but a rousing, properly chaotic second movement captured well the big-ban-sound of "Putnam's Camp." The third movement, "The Housatonic at Stock-bridge," which can so easily degenerate into a meaningless mess of tone clusters, was a flowing and coherent whole. The orchestra deserves great credit here for a remarkably controlled performance of the most technically difficult work on the program...
...Edward Chase, vice president of G.P. Putnam's Sons, said that his firm plans to distribute the book anyway. He describes the untruths as "tiny, nitpicking things" that "only attorneys care about...
...When Putnam and members of the Corporation announced their intention to form the Harvard Management Company last fall, they decided that several modest chunks of the portfolio should remain with outside management firms as a sort of "yardstick" for the new company...