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Unlike those who derided Goddard as the personification of the mad genius with dreams of space exploration, Lindbergh rightly thought Goddard's theories worthy of support at a time when Goddard had all but exhausted the meager research funds available to him. Lindbergh turned to Daniel Guggenheim, telling the philanthropist: "As far as I can tell, Goddard knows more about rockets than anybody else in the country," and "if we're ever going beyond airplanes and propellers, we'll probably have to go to rockets." Guggenheim, already a spirited benefactor of aeronautical progress, was convinced. During...
...Syracuse concert-in which the two pianos were tuned a quarter tone apart-was a repeat of a program put on by the Contemporary Music Society at Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum, where it was such a success that Columbia Records decided to record it. Three young New York composers-Teo Macero, Calvin Hampton and Donald Lybbert-wrote new scores for the occasion in which colliding lines sometimes sent out strangely affecting shivers of dissonance. But the most musical mo- ments were heard in three piano pieces by the late eccentric genius of 20th century American music, Charles Ives...
...Buchwald got the star billing, of course. But still, Bill Moyers, 32, won his share of the laughs when he rose to address the Women's National Press Club in Washington. Now working as publisher of Long Island's Newsday, which is owned by Captain Harry Guggenheim, Moyers told the "true inside story" of how he came to leave the White House. "The President called me in one day and said: 'Bill, when you took over as press secretary, the polls were 60-40 for me. Now they're 40-60 against me. In those days...
...strikers were straight out of the Social Register, Who's Who and Dun & Bradstreet: Cornelius Vanderbilt Whit ney, Ogden Phipps and Captain Harry Guggenheim, to name just a few. Their spokesman was Jack Dreyfus Jr., senior partner of Dreyfus & Co., the Wall Street investment house. Dreyfus & Companions are horse owners, and what got them riled up last week was the failure of the New York legislature to enact a bill that would have resulted in higher purses at the state's thoroughbred racing tracks. It got them so angry that they refused to run their horses at Aqueduct...
Thirteen Harvard professors have received 1967 Guggenheim Fellowship Awards...