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David Binney Putnam (1 4-year-old explorer, 6 ft. ½ in. tall, author of David Goes Voyaging, etc., Hotchkiss schoolboy) and his father, Publisher George Palmer Putnam, offered U. S. Boy Scouts four months of fun and an avenue to fame. They will select two youths, between the ages of 13½ and 15, to go with them to Africa to observe animals with Hunter-Photographer & Mrs. Martin Johnson (Simba). The trip will begin on June 15, end in October. The two Boy Scouts will write a book about their doings, be paid royalties.
Sherwood Anderson, author of Dark Laughter, collects news from Coon Hollow, Spratts Creek, Troutdale, Marion and many another Virginian village, prints it in two weekly newssheets. When he bought the Smyth County News and the Marion Democrat (combined circulation, 5,000) he explained to whom it might concern: 'I am doing it primarily to make a living. My books have never sold." Last week Editor & Publisher Anderson confided to readers of the Democrat: "The trouble with us is that we have to write the whole paper, and make our living nights. You can't make money and have as much fun as we are having with these papers." Readers of the Democrat wondered when their editor's breadwinning novel would appear.
Peggy Hopkins Joyce, collector of husbands and jewels, purchased from Black, Starr & Frost of Manhattan the finest blue diamond in the U. S. Weight: 127 carats. Cost: $300,000. She will wear it, mounted in platinum, around her neck. Her latest husband was Count Gosta Morner, from whom she was divorced in 1924.
Fraulein Clairenore Stinnes, eldest daughter of Hugo Stinnes (late industrial lord of the German Ruhr), reached Peking, China, last week in an automobile which she had adventurously driven from Berlin across the Balkans, Turkey and Asiatic Russia (TIME, June 6). She will drive on "around the world" ferrying the Pacific and Atlantic.
John D. Rockefeller III (student) was elected vice-president of the Philadelphian Society at Princeton University The society's purpose is to promote religion among the undergraduates. William S. Mitchell of Little Rock, Ark., was elected president.
*Headmistress Spence died in 1922; but the School Alumnae Society still assists such as Madame Gatti-Casazza to find orphans.