Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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David Edwards, president of the Saco Lowell Shops in Boston, will speak on "Finance within Industry." Edwards has been a director of the National Association of Manufacturers and the U.S. and Boston Chambers of Commerce. He once held a teaching fellowship in Economics at the University...
...Murray Gerstenhaber 3G, a research mathematician at the University, this week received his second straight $3,000 fellowship...
...five young scientists to get the Frank B. Jewett post-doctoral fellowship granted by Bell Telephone Laboratories for 1952-53. $1,500 also goes to the universities where the scientists do their research...
...nine that he wanted to be a musician, but he was 21 before he was able to begin well-rounded training. Working nights in a post office to support his family, he managed to put himself through the Cleveland Institute of Music. He won a fellowship to study composition in Paris. When the Germans took over, he fled to Spain, then returned to the U.S. and a routine job with the Bureau of Internal Revenue. He went on composing in his fourth-floor Harlem walk-up at night...
...poured money into everything from Basic English to the Berkshire Music Festival, from "studies of the aurora borealis in Alaska to measurements of the velocity of light in California" and the 200-inch telescope on Palomar Mountain. Its fellowship programs have been a gigantic "gamble on talent" that have included such excellent bets as Enrico Fermi, Ernest O. Lawrence, inventor of the cyclotron, Ralph Bunche, Historian Arnold Toynbee (for a future book on international relations), Lord Beveridge, scores of young writers, hundreds of refugee scholars-even Dr. Kinsey...