Word: guggenheimers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arthur Loverdige, Curator of Reptiles and Amphibians at the Museum of Comparative Zoology and one of three Harvard men who were recently awarded Guggenheim fellowships, will leave for Tanganyika in September to spend ten months studying isolated and fast vanishing fauna in the "rain forests" of East Africa...
Each year the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation selects a few Americans considered likely to add to the "scholarly and artistic power" of the U. S., pays their living expenses so they may work at what pleases them. This week the Foundation granted $135,000 to 58 men & women chosen from 1,000 applicants. Some of the 1938 Guggenheim fellows...
...Rope & Faggot, which he wrote in France on a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1927-28, Author White maintained that the long tradition of U. S. vigilantism has finally narrowed down to the Southern Negro, not to protect Southern womanhood as was usually claimed (he found rape charged in less than one lynching in five*), but to shackle and harry a growing economic competitor. Rope & Faggot also maintained that lynch law dated back to Colonial days when a Quaker named Charles Lynch sat as magistrate in an extra-legal court at what is now Lynchburg, Va., to try horse thieves...
Married. Meyer Robert Guggenheim, 53, baldish, four-time-wedded member of the copper-operating dynasty; to Rebecca Pollard Van Lennep, 34, pretty divorcee of less than a week; aboard his yacht, Firenze, moored at Miami Beach...
...Eternal City is not a large canvas (45½ in. by 59½ in.), but it took the artist two years to conceive, three years to paint. Stalwart, tranquil Peter Blume was 26 when he got a Guggenheim fellowship, took his young wife Ebie to Italy in 1932. They stayed eight months, lived in Florence for a while and then in Rome. Like other travelers in Italy that year they ran into a great deal of marching in celebration of the loth Anniversary of Mussolini's March on Rome. They met smart Italian officers in powder-blue caps...