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...George Putnam '49, an active Harvard Overseer and Boston financial magnate, will succeed George F. Bennett '33 as the University's Treasurer on July...
Compared to his predecessor, Putnam is considered to be more liberal, both in terms of his financial philosophy and his personal political viewpoints...
...27th Treasurer, Putnam will supervise Harvard's $1.4 billion of investments and have the strongest voice in determining how the University votes its shares in proxy fights. Putnam will be a member of both the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers...
...buying opportunities in the U.S. already are restricted by an antitrust settlement that limits the size of new acquisitions, but the stock slide is restricting them further. Last week, indeed, ITT was rebuffed by a company that had previously agreed to let itself be bought. Directors of G.P. Putnam's Sons, the publishing house, asked ITT to postpone the takeover indefinitely. Since they had agreed to the buy-out in January, the block of ITT stock to be used in payment for Putnam's had declined in value from $16.5 million to $9.7 million...
...knew that we had a chance to win," Putnam said yesterday, "but we also knew Brown and Yale were very strong. We're quite unhappy about finishing third...