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...YORK -- William Guggenheim, retired industrialist and philanthropist, today asked for the resignation of President Roosevelt to make way for a "proper kind of leadership...
...Robert G. Davis '29, critic, author of reviews and critical articles for many periodicals; Mark Schorer, novelist, essayist, and critic, who wrote the novel "A House Too Old" in 1935, and is now preparing "Live In It Merrily" and "The Revolt of William Blake"; Delmore Schwartz, winner of the Guggenheim award in the field of writing for next year and author of "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities" in 1938; and Wallace Stegner, novelist, who has written "Remembering Laughter" in 1937, "On a Darkling Plain" in 1940, and many short stories and critical articles for periodicals...
...systematic, he began turning out one water color a day. His first tries were not too good; later he tore up two or three hundred of them. But he kept on, upped his output to two and even three a day, gave up lithographs altogether. Last year, on a Guggenheim Fellowship, Water-Colorist Dehn got himself a car and ranged Mexico and the Southwest, turning out water colors like hot cakes...
From 1,700 candidates the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation picked 73 to spend 1940-41 doing special studies at its expense (average grant $2,500 per scholar). Cast in unusual roles by the awards are two successful candidates: Novelist John dos Passes, who will complete a series of essays on present American conceptions of freedom of thought; Artist Miguel Covarrubias, who will write a book on the culture of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec...
Among the recipients of the 73 Guggenheim Fellowships-this year is Wassily W. Leontief, associate professor of Economics, whose project will be the preparation of a book on mathematical economics...