Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sergeant Karl Shapiro, poet (Person, Place and Thing), now in the South Pacific, who just won a $2,500 Guggenheim fellowship, received a $1,000 grant from the American Academy and the National Institute of Arts and Letters...
...Lice. Dr. Nikolic, another Partisan surgeon, is a little, weary man with a fighter's heart and a scholar's mind (in 1926 he held a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship to study malaria). In 1943 the Germans put him in a concentration camp, held him there nine months until the Partisans traded a German officer for him. Among the Partisans his fight has been as much against disease as against wounds...
...life. His penniless, work-filled boyhood taught him that competition is the soul of every game, that competitive effort involves an immense cooperative effort, that communities and individuals boom together. "I plead guilty of being a Kiwanian," he declares, "sharing all the sins of extrovert good fellowship, self-improvement and community spirit which the so-called intellectuals love to lampoon. ... I see no hypocrisy in concern for the general good coupled with an interest in private advancement...
Levin, who graduated from Harvard in 1933, was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1943 and will continue his research under the new grant. He was awarded the Henry Russell Shaw Travelling Fellowship for work in Europe after graduation, and was a member of the Society of Fellows at Harvard from 1937 to 1939. Levin is the author of two books, "The Broken Column: A Study of Romantic Hellenism" and "James Joyce: A Critical Introduction," and of many articles...
Miss Edinger, too, is receiving her second Guggenheim Fellowship. A distinguished refugee scholar from Germany, she was educated at the University of Heidelberg, Munich, and Frankfort, and has been a research associate at the Museum of Comparative Zoology since 1944. Her contributions to scholarly journals published in German, French, and English, are numerous...