Word: guggenheimers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Houghton was one of that group of stage-struck youngsters, whom in the early 1930's Princeton sent into show business by way of the Triangle Club and Theatre Intime. He set Carrie Nation, stage-managed the Guild's Both Your Houses and in 1934 landed a Guggenheim Fellowship to investigate the Russian theatre. To prepare himself for his observations he learned Russian before he crossed the Red border...
...works, a biography of Moses Colt Tyler, and a study of American and French Culture (1750-1848). He has also translated Heine's "The North Sen" and edited the Poems of Edgar Allen Poe and Plays of the Restoration and the 18th Century. At present he holds a Guggenheim Fellowship to do research work for a biography of Tom Moore...
Last week in Manhattan Professor Alexander Klemin, director of the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aeronautics, informed members of the Electrochemical Society of the present progress and problems of rocketry. He pointed out that the burned gas molecules shoot out of a rocket's combustion chamber at 3,000 to 4,000 ft. per sec. A rocket traveling at this speed would be 100% efficient, since all the recoil force of the molecules is turned into forward thrust...
...show" Mechau returned at length to Denver, won a Guggenheim Fellowship to study the artistic and historic background of the West, and was given his first one-man show by the Denver Junior League. With his brother Vaughan, Artist Mechau is at present working on an illustrated history of the Pony Express. Frank Mechau hates to leave the house while working. "For the past four months," said he, "I never made a journey beyond the garbage...
Lieutenant Kelsey has been associated for many years with the scientific development of airplane instruments. In 1929 he was connected with the Guggenheim Blind Flying Laboratories, and at present he is stationed at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio...