In 1927, his wife, Dorothy Binney, traveled to South America and began a long term, and well chronicled, adulterous affair with George Weymouth, a man 19 years her junior; Putnam would eventually leave Binney two years later. Many thought that George had left his first wife for Amelia Earhart, although for Binney, it was _her_ own ticket out of an unhappy marriage. <sep>, Pronoun: her