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...sold, and the Art Center has already made plans to send the show on to museums in Des Moines, San Francisco and Ottawa. Saul Baizerman was on hand for the opening, then scurried back to Manhattan to make Greenwich Village ring anew with his hammer. He now has a Guggenheim fellowship to continue his work, and "enough ideas to last for 20 years." The nicest thing of all was the way gallerygoers came up to him in Minneapolis to say how much they liked his work. "Imagine you had children," says Baizerman. "And imagine you married them well, and then...
Though the University does not have the vast Guggenheim Memorial Laboratory, it does have the world's first supersonic speed wind tunnel. From this wind tunnel and other equipment have come experimental data that revolutionized jet engine design...
Only One Outrage. As for the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, said its Secretary Henry Allen Moe, "the most outrageous mistake of all" was a 1935 grant to Scenarist Alvah Bessie, who later became one of the Hollywood Ten jailed for contempt of Congress. But except for Bessie and two or three others, said Moe, the foundation had done well: like its sister organizations, it had never knowingly subsidized a subversive, and it never would...
Then why do foundations make the mistakes they do? Said Secretary Moe: "Senator Guggenheim,* as you know, was a miner, a mining man, and he understood what a grubstake was . . . He used to say: 'When you are grubstaking, you take chances. You act on the best evidence you've got, but still you have got to take chances.' We who operate really on the frontiers of knowledge and understanding have to recognize that we are not the Almighty. And not being the Almighty, we can't find out everything ... If [applicants for a grant] are members...
...late Simon Guggenheim, a Jewish immigrant's son who, with his six brothers, built up the American Smelting and Refining Co. into one of the world's great mining empires, served as U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1907 to 1913. A lavish Lord Bountiful ("Have a new school on me," he would say), he set up his foundation in 1925 in memory of his son, to support "an endless succession of scholars, scientists and artists . . . [to] advance human achievement...