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Within five years, rockets will be carrying mail and cargo across the Atlantic. Shortly thereafter, they will be carrying passengers. These predictions were made at last week's Chicago meeting of the American Rocket Society by Harry F. Guggenheim, aircraft and rocket pioneer, and a director of the National Aeronautic Association. Guggenheim believes that rockets will cost less than jet airliners and will use less fuel because they will coast most of the way through the almost airless ionosphere...
...terribly exciting," said the maid, "but he always wears clean shirts"), and still regards him as a goodhearted country boy who wears unsophisticated clothes. "He thinks he's a wonderful bridge player," confides Mrs. Libby, "but he's really lousy." Libby got a Guggenheim Fellowship and moved to Princeton, but a few months later the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and he offered his services to Nobel Prizewinner Harold Urey. Urey arranged for Libby's transfer to Columbia University, and he plunged into the historic Manhattan (atom bomb) Project, working through the war with great effect...
William Goyen is bound by ties of good fellowships: the Southwest Review Literary Fellowship in 1948, Guggenheim in 1951 and 1952, the McMurray Award for the best first novel by a Texan, The House of Breath, in 1950. His latest work has two qualities that are likely to pluck at a patron's purse strings:1) it is clearly not written in the hope of making any money; 2) it is so unclearly written and hard to read that some people may conclude that it must...
Henry Allen Moe, secretary-general of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . . . . . . . Litt.D...
Last week Giacometti's steadily growing reputation got a great push forward with simultaneous full-dress retrospective shows of his works in two of the world's leading art capitals. Two whole floors of New York City's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum were given over to a full-sweep display of Giacometti's work from 1925 to the present. In London 37 Giacometti sculptures plus some of his most recent works, oils and sketches, assembled by the British Arts Council, won high praise even from London's Times, which expressed "unstinted gratitude . . . for a major...