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Eight members of the Harvard faculty are among the 154 American and Canadian scholars, artists, composers, and writers who were awarded Guggenheim Fellowships for next year, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation revealed last night...
...first won recognition in the 20's for his modern music which emphasized dissonances and jazz rhythms. Copland was the first American composer to win a Guggenheim fellowship. In 1945 he got a Pulitzer Prize for "Appalachian Springs" and last year an Academy Award for his score for "The Heiress...
Hevelock, a native of Canada, is an authority on Greek Philosophy. He taught at the Acadia University in Nova Scotia before coming to the University on a Guggenheim Fellowship...
Until World War II, most Americans thought that rockets were useful only for Fourth of July celebrations and trips to the moon. But not Dr. Theodore von Kármán, the cigar-smoking, eager boss of the famed Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory at CalTech. With Air Force and private funds, Dr. von Kármán had been experimenting enough with rockets to know they could be an important weapon. And since he was well acquainted with the work of the top Axis aerodynamicists, he knew what fast progress they were making with rockets. But when...
Copland was the first U.S. composer to win a commission (for his Music for the Theater) from the newly formed League of Composers, the first to be awarded a Guggenheim fellowship. He has also collected a Pulitzer Prize, in 1945, for Appalachian Spring, and a Hollywood "Oscar" this year, for his score for The Heiress...