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...John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation made its annual award-69 fellowships to specialists in fields from poetry to plant pathology. Five of the $2,500 grants went to men in active war service...
Barbara Hazel Guggenheim McKinley, plump 40-year-old heiress to many of the Guggenheim copper millions, was wedded, in Denver, for the third time-this time to a former body-builder and dance enthusiast, 28-year-old Corporal Larry Leonard. He signed a contract rejecting in advance any share in her wealth. The bride said her eleven and nine-year-old son and daughter "wrote him a letter and asked him to marry...
Four University Faculty members were among the 64 recipients of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowships chosen this year. Annually distributing around $2,500 each in stipends, the Fellowship projects this year concentrate on the civilization of the Americas in particular...
...Daniel Webster), nearly always wrote of the American scene. He was a tall, loose-limbed, shyly humorous, friendly man with a boyish look despite his mustache and thick-lensed glasses. He published his first volumes of verse when he was 17, wrote John Brown's Body as a Guggenheim Fellow in 1926-27. This 100,000-word verse narrative sold over 180,000 copies. When the U.S. entered World War II, Benet was midway through another book-length narrative poem about frontier life; abandoning it for the duration, he produced such notable radio scripts as Your Army...
Married. Diane Guggenheim, 18, daughter of copper-rich Lieut. Commander Harry F. Guggenheim; and Army Lieut. John Meredith Langstaff, 22, peacetime concert singer; in Manhattan...