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That creative artists and scholars of all kinds may have a year abroad, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (capital fund $4,500,000, established by onetime Colorado Senator and Mining Tycoon Simon Guggenheim and his wife Olga Hirsh Guggenheim in memory of their son who died in 1922), has in the past six years awarded 295 Fellowships. Last week, with no strings attached, $175,000 was handed out to 77 male and female Fellows. Average grant: $2,500. To China, Europe and Latin America they will go, some of them perhaps to try to emulate Poet Stephen Vincent Benet...
...theatro as a career from the collegiate point of view. E. P. Goodnow '17, who is to direct "B.J.One," will outline the play for the benefit of those intending to come out for the competition. All members of the University are invited. Strickland, who has just been awarded the Guggenheim Travelling Fellowship, is at present organizing an intercollegiate drama association...
Cuba?Harry Frank Guggenheim...
...Guggenheim '29 has given the Harvard Union a valuable collection of 11 heads of East African animals. Guggenheim had them mounted for the Union last Fall, when he returned from his trip in Northern Tanganyika...
...afraid to be in Cuba last week were numerous merrymaking socialites, among them Mr. & Mrs. Irénée du Pont of Wilmington, Del., Prince & Princess Tokugawa of Japan, Princess Alexandra-Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, Bishop James E. Freeman of Washington and U. S. Ambassador Harry F. Guggenheim, whose dinner-party-of-the week was lavish...