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...Canada, Mexico, and 36 states). At the head of the table, if he is not out on the road on his selling job, will be Joe's father, Donald Moore, 48, a patient, understanding man. Born on a poor little 120-acre farm over at Falling Waters in Putnam County, Donald was squeezed out of farming by the size of his family. He went to work selling Bibles-three different editions for teachers, three for home use and, along with them, a discreet book on sex fundamentals. By the time he married Thelma Carver, Donald had a job selling...
...DEER PARK (375 pp.)-Norman Mailer-Putnam...
...planned to fly over crippled Putnam and other towns in eastern Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts, but Pilot William Draper was unwilling to continue in the face of turbulent weather and poor visibility. At 8:48 a.m.. the Columbine landed at Hartford's Bradley Field. At the airport were six governors, with a swarm of Government and Red Cross officials. In a nearby hangar, Ike listened while each governor in turn outlined the damage to his state. After the hour-long conference, the President promised that the Government would do everything possible, and appealed to the public...
Probably the most frightening effect of the flood occurred at Putnam, Conn, (pop. 8,200), where the flood destroyed a magnesium plant, setting off white-hot fires. All through one terrifying night, the citizens of Putnam cringed in their homes while hundreds of barrels of burning magnesium floated in the streets, sending geysers of white-hot metal 250 feet...
Died. Herbert Putnam, 93, longtime (1899-1939) Librarian of Congress; in Woods Hole, Mass. Appointed by President McKinley, Dr. Putnam transformed the library's haphazard collection of less than a million volumes into one of the world's largest (over 10 million books and pamphlets), developed a new system of classification, supervised the purchase of a valuable European collection of incunabula, including a Gutenberg Bible...