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...enormous skill and considerable sly humor she postures and grimaces through pantomime sketches of her own devising in elaborate costumes that she not only designs but sews herself. Eight years of it have given her a comfortable income, scrapbooks full of superlatives in three languages and last spring a Guggenheim Fellowship to study Hellenistic art forms in Athens...
...John W. Davis, Alfred E. Smith, Irénée du Pont, for directors. Very carefully did the League refrain from entering this year's campaign. Meantime, it has built up a campaign chest, and has been busy recruiting potent members. (Sewell Lee Avery, Harry F. Guggenheim and John J. Raskob were last week slated for its governing board.) To date Liberty Leaguers have only intimated that they will offer the U. S. the inedible Constitution but if the Administration's Recovery measures do not succeed, they may be able to proclaim that the New Deal also...
...FOUNDRY?Albert Halper?Viking ($2.50). This second novel by a young "proletarian" whose Union Square won him a Guggenheim Fellowship tells of workers and bosses in an electrotype foundry...
Last month the Harmon Trophy went to Wiley Post and the Daniel Guggenheim Gold Medal to William Edward Boeing. Last week the Collier Trophy- third in the trinity of aviation's outstanding awards-went to Frank Walker Caldwell for the "greatest achievement in aviation in America" during the past year. His achievement: the "controllable-pitch" propeller, which enables high-speed planes to take off quickly, climb rapidly, fly efficiently at high altitudes. Presentation of the trophy is made annually by the President of the U. S. Graduate of the University of Virginia and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (where...
...trophies, three are famed. One is the Harmon Trophy, award of which fortnight ago made Wiley Post No. 1 airman of the year. Another is the Collier Trophy which annually rewards outstanding development in U. S. aeronautics. The third, and in some respects the most significant, is the Daniel Guggenheim Gold Medal which last week went to Board Chairman William Edward Boeing of potent United Aircraft & Transport Corp. First awarded in 1929 to Orville Wright, the Guggenheim Medal has gone each year to outstanding scientists in advanced aeronautical engineering. No aeronautical engineer is this year's winner...