Word: guggenheimers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...refined eye and a sharp sense of history. Meanwhile, Weston was in business as a portrait photographer in Glendale, San Francisco and finally in Carmel, California. Among professionals his off-hour studies of dunes, shells and vegetables became noted for their miraculous clarity. In 1936 he won the first Guggenheim fellowship ever given a photographer...
Marriage Revealed. Barbara Josephine Guggenheim Lawson-Johnston Wettach, 33, heiress to the Guggenheim copper millions; and Henry Obre, 33, Manhattan grinding-wheel salesman; she for the third time, he for the first; month ago, in Darien, Conn...
...voice from the hills, turned out a book of 703 sonnets in eleven months, wrote a book of extraordinary stories about the hill people, an autobiography. He taught school in Greenup (pop. 1,125), became county school superintendent at $100 a month, went to Europe last year on a Guggenheim Fellowship, returned to teach school, sell stories to Collier's, Esquire, and write editorials for a Greenup County paper...
...wooden replica, exact in every detail, for a study of space requirements, load placement, general structure. DC-4 No. 2 was a perfect scale model, with 8 ft. 3 in. wingspan. This Lilliputian transport "flew" through 1,100 hours and $25,000 worth of wind tunnel tests at the Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory at Caltech. Third stage was a Spanish Inquisition by Douglas engineers, who systematically squeezed, banged, shook, stretched, heated, froze, destroyed every part, every material. They built huge testing machines many times as valuable as the part they were testing. In the end the experts were satisfied that every...
...Ronald King, at present a Guggenheim Fellow studying high frequency electrical phenomena at the University of Munich, Germany, has been appointed Instructor in Physics and Communication Engineering at the University for three years starting next September...