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...departure from G. P. Putnam & Sons of George Palmer Putnam was almost as newsworthy as the deal itself. In the past decade he has made himself conspicuous on the publishing scene. He is a man with the dangerous combination of literary ability, business acumen, energy. From him the story of his life is a well and probably oft told tale. Eastern-bred, he went to the University of California for his health. He might not say that if he were not so impressively healthy today. After a brief early connection with G. P. Putnam's Sons, he went...
When books by Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper first appeared, they bore the imprint of G. P. Putnam who started publishing in 1837. Now oldest of U. S. publishing houses of direct descent is G. P. Putnam's Sons, its management having passed to the third generation. Last week the flux that has lately been tossing the book industry about seized this venerable firm...
George Palmer Putnam had three sons, most famed of whom was the late patriarchal Major George Haven Putnam whose anecdotes included his imprisonment by the rebels during the Civil War. When Major Putnam died last winter his stock in the firm, which did not constitute control, passed to his son, Palmer Cosslet Putnam, 30, a geologist. Returning to the U. S. recently from Africa, Palmer Cosslet Putnam inspected the firm of his father and grandfather. What its earnings were only a few intimates know, but publishers would be surprised if recent Putnam profits have been tremendous. President has been Irving...
What Geologist Putnam decided to do. and did do last week, was to buy out his cousin, the Vice President. Then, to bring new blood into the old house and fill the executive hole, he arranged a merger with the six-year-old firm of Minton, Balch...
...rolling stone thus returned evinced much flair as a publicist. Expeditions to strange places took his fancy. He developed a close contact with the New York Times and put G. P. Putnam's Sons into the business of publishing expeditions. Putnam books this autumn, for example, include Richard Evelyn Byrd's Little America, Scout Paul Siple's A Boy Scout With Byrd, volumes by Sea-Diver William Beebe, Artist-Explorer Rockwell Kent, Jungle-Tramper Mrs. Martin Johnson. Even Publisher Putnam's son has been publicized as an explorer (David Goes A-Voyaging by David Binney Putnam...