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Died. Solomon R. Guggenheim, 88, last of the seven Guggenheim brothers who, with their father, a Swiss-born peddler of household knickknacks, ran a $25,000 investment in two Colorado silver mines into one of the world's largest fortunes; in Port Washington, N.Y. With earnings from his share in his family's international mining interests (Alaskan copper, Chilean nitrate, Bolivian tin), Solomon donated millions to charity (mostly anonymously), in 1947 gave some $4,000,000 to establish the fourth of the famed Guggenheim foundations† which supports Manhattan's avant-garde Museum of Non-Objective Painting...
...Weidman was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship, with which he created the ballet "Fables for Our Times." It has been produced on Broadway, at New York City's Golden Anniversary celebration, and on television...
Sales of nickel candy bars in Radcliffe dormitories and off-yard houses will help pay the current deficit of the "Forty and Nine" yearbook, Rita Guggenheim '49, Editor-in-chief, announced yesterday. It was estimated that the "Forty and Nine" is running about $600 to $1000 in debt...
...Miss Guggenheim was recently appointed Editor-in-chief of the yearbook succeeding Cynthia Baker '49. She had previously served as managing editor of the annual...
Faculty members who won Guggenheim fellowships are Wendel H. Furry, associate professor of Physics; Calude A. Villee, Jr., associate in Biological Chemistry at the Medical School; George E. Erikson, instructor in Anatomy at the Medical School; Bernice G. Schubert, instructor in Botany; Richard D. Ellman, assistant professor of English Composition; Jean-Joseph Seznec, professor of French and Spanish; Edgar B. Wilson, Jr., professor of Chemistry; George W. Mackey, associate professor of Mathematics; Albert B. Lord, teaching fellow in Slavic; and Morton G. White, assistant professor of Philosophy...