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...Guggenheim Fellowship enable him to work on Clamor, a book intended to complement his former writings. He was given the Award of Merit of the American Academy of Arts and letters...
Disgrace did not last long. The year 1927 was a yeasty period; the public was crazy about aviation. Almost at once the Swede rejected by the Weather Bureau was picked up by the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics and sent to California to establish the first airway weather reporting system...
...Modern Art last week the competition for the newest and biggest prize in art reached the finals. Nineteen national and international juries had selected 95 works from 19 countries to vie for the $10,000 grand prize, established this year by Manhattan's multimillion-dollar Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, whose new $3,000,000, Frank Lloyd Wright-designed museum is now going up on Manhattan's upper Fifth Avenue...
...right-hand man to Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, who credited him with "doing all the work" on the survey that formed national policy on rubber production. In 1948 the Saturday Evening Post assigned him to do a post-mortem on the election upset. The result led him to a Guggenheim fellowship that financed a two-year study of election phenomena, produced the first of his two notable books on politics, The Future of American Politics and Revolt of the Moderates (TIME, April...
...powerfully points his moral : that the U.S. "Puritan" heritage has condi tioned us to suspect anyone who is a little different, to equate nonconformity with wrongdoing and evil." More important, it also proved him able to fashion vocal music that is eminently singable - and listenable. The recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship this year, Floyd plans to spend it composing and writing. Director Erich Leinsdorf, who deserves credit for a fine discovery, can almost surely count on a full house at the New York City Center for Floyd's next work...