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Among the 82 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowships, totalling almost two hundred thousand dollars, that were announced yesterday, seven were awarded to members of the Harvard Faculty, and an eighth was awarded to a prominent graduate, John Dos Passos '16, author of "Manhattan Transfer," "USA," and other well known novels...
...Chester, N.H. His offspring attracted attention when: in 1911 daughter Julia Steele French eloped with the family chauffeur; in 1923 son Francis Ormond French (whose daughter, Ellen, married John Jacob Astor in 1934) became a cab driver, in 1938 applied for a WPA job. Left. By the late Simon Guggenheim, copper tycoon: to the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the bulk of his estate, not yet estimated; to his widow, Olga Hirsh Guggenheim, a $100,000 annuity from a $2,000,000 trust fund; to numerous relatives, friends, institutions, about...
Died. Simon Guggenheim, 73, head of the Guggenheim mining interests, of pneumonia; in Manhattan. With his wife he established the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation with a $3,000,000 gift in 1925 as a memorial to a dead son, gave it another...
Alicia Patterson Simpson Brooks Guggenheim, thrice-married favorite daughter of Captain Joe Patterson, last week all but called her father a liar. In her year-old tabloid, the Hempstead (L.I.) Newsday, pretty, 34-year-old Alicia wrote an editorial, THAT 80 PER CENT, about isolationist claims that "80% of the American people are against our going into the war." It began: "You remember the old gag: 'Figures don't lie-but liars sometimes figure.' " The 80% claim has been pushed particularly by the Chicago Tribune, published by her cousin Colonel Robert McCormick, and the New York Daily...
...Calling it "The Squared Circle," in three issues she filled the right-hand side with pro-Roosevelt editorials. The left-hand side was filled with pro-Willkie editorials by her husband of two years, Harry Frank Guggenheim, 51-year-old copper tycoon, ex-Ambassador to Cuba, aviation patron. ("My husband is traditionally a Republican. I'm not traditionally anything...