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...announced yesterday that the William Lowell Putnam Competition will give an examination in college mathematics on Saturday, April 16, with awards ranging from suitable medals to $500.00 in cash, and, in addition, a prize scholarship of $1000.00 to be awarded at Harvard University to one of the 5 leading contestants...
...Association was founded last year with George Putnam '09 as President and Dr. N. W. Faxon '01 as Vice President. The late Ingersoil Bowditch '97 served as Treasurer...
...Amelia Earhart Putnam and her copilot, Fred Noonan, who in the summer planned to encircle the globe by a southern route (1 were unable to take off from the San Francisco airport and therefore gave up their plans, 2 were lost in the Pacific, 3 completed their flight successfully, 4 did not have sufficient funds to complete the flight, 5 were stopped by George P. Putnam, the aviatrix's husband...
...half years ago Edward Lynn, a grateful MacDowell Colony alumnus who now writes radio scripts in Hollywood, and Mrs. Natalie Alden Putnam, a Hollywood piano teacher, hit on the idea of holding an annual radio festival in honor of the composer. Choosing the date of MacDowell's death for their Festival...
...SCOTLAND-R. H. Bruce Lock-hart-Putnam ($3). In this nostalgic, slow-paced account of his athletic boyhood, Author Lockhart (British Agent) gives first place to relatives and Rugger, with interspersed laments on the decline of bagpipes, kilts, Scotch whiskey, dialect and nationalism, winds up with a stirring defense of schoolmasters. Concluded with this volume, Author Lockhart's autobiographical series adds little to modern letters, but makes an interesting example of Scotch frugality in living one's life twice over...