Word: guggenheims
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...representatives of Harvard were included in the appointments to John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowships announced recently. Harry T. Levin, lately appointed Associate Professor of English, is making a study of the technique of symbolism in American fiction, with particular reference to Poe; Hawthorne, Melville, and Henry James. Miss Tilly Edinger, Research Associate in Paleontology in Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, is studying the development of teeth in the evolutionary line leading from ancestral fishes to mammals...
...John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation made its annual award-69 fellowships to specialists in fields from poetry to plant pathology. Five of the $2,500 grants went to men in active war service...
Barbara Hazel Guggenheim McKinley, plump 40-year-old heiress to many of the Guggenheim copper millions, was wedded, in Denver, for the third time-this time to a former body-builder and dance enthusiast, 28-year-old Corporal Larry Leonard. He signed a contract rejecting in advance any share in her wealth. The bride said her eleven and nine-year-old son and daughter "wrote him a letter and asked him to marry...
Four University Faculty members were among the 64 recipients of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowships chosen this year. Annually distributing around $2,500 each in stipends, the Fellowship projects this year concentrate on the civilization of the Americas in particular...
...Daniel Webster), nearly always wrote of the American scene. He was a tall, loose-limbed, shyly humorous, friendly man with a boyish look despite his mustache and thick-lensed glasses. He published his first volumes of verse when he was 17, wrote John Brown's Body as a Guggenheim Fellow in 1926-27. This 100,000-word verse narrative sold over 180,000 copies. When the U.S. entered World War II, Benet was midway through another book-length narrative poem about frontier life; abandoning it for the duration, he produced such notable radio scripts as Your Army...