ADAMS, FRANKLIN P. [1911–1925] Newspaperman who wrote a popular column, “The Conning Tower,” in the style of Samuel Pepys. Entries originally published in the New York Evening Mail, the New York Tribune, and the New York World. Later collected, in part, as The Diary of Our Own Samuel Pepys: 1911–1925. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1935.