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Died. C. Harold Smith, 71, "Carbon King," one of the founders of Binney & Smith; of heart disease; in London. Two years ago he offered $1,000 for a plan to dispose of his $10,000,000 for the greatest good to humanity, received thousands of suggestions, gave the prize to a Columbia University psychology professor who had proposed a C. Harold Smith Institute of Mental Hygiene. But he never said whether he would carry out the plan. Born in London, he emigrated to New Zealand, fell in love with a Maori maiden, narrowly escaped torture and death at the hands...
...they will set up a strong radio station. The station will collect and relay weather reports of the 1932-33 Polar Year, observations to which official expeditions from all the northern nations will contribute. Artist Rockwell Kent will be at southern Greenland, more for solitude than for science. David Binney Putnam, 18, as soon as school term ends will go on the Johalla to Labrador and Iceland in order to write another "David Goes" book. Commander Donald Baxter
Amelia Earhart, 32, transatlantic flyer and her great & good friend George Palmer Putnam, 43, Manhattan publisher (divorced last year from Mrs. Dorothy Binney Putnam) were issued a marriage license at Groton, Conn. In Manhattan two days later Publisher Putnam said: "To marry Miss Earhart would be swell. But while it seems pretty definite that a marriage license has been issued, we have not been married and I cannot say when we will be." In Washington the same day Flyer Earhart said: "Let's not talk about the license. I can't be any more definite than...
...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, in 1928 when...
Married. Dorothy Binney Putnam, divorced wife of Publisher George Palmer Putnam (TIME, Dec. 30); and Captain Frank Monroe Upton, Wartime winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor, an officer of the S. S. President Roosevelt during the Antinoe rescue; at Fort Pierce...