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...artist the name Guggenheim rings sweetly. It means security for a year or two of creating, with a little left over for pernods, pulque or Pilsener. Since 1925 there have been awarded 417 Fellowships on the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation which Simon Guggenheim and his wife, Olga Hirsh, established in memory of their son who died in 1922. Average stipend is $2,500. Many a Guggenheim Fellow has done well with his year of freedom: Stephen Vincent Benet (John Brown's Body which won a Pulitzer Prize); Playwrights Lynn Riggs (Green Grow the Lilacs) and Paul Eliot Green...
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...
...Melvin Hirsh Siegel 2L of Superior, Wisconsin has been appointed Note Editor of the Harvard Law Review, it was announced yesterday. Bailey Aldrich 21, of Boston is now Case Editor, and Samuel Bilton Levy 21, of Newport, Rhode Island, will act as Legislation and Book Review Editor. Siegel and Aldrich were members of the class of 1929, while Levy graduated from Brown University...
...poster artists of the nation lent their genius to the enlistment of recruits, the selling of bonds, the conservation of food, during the War. Today Beneker is doing the same job in a peacetime environment-promoting the morale of labor and fostering understanding between employer and employee. How "Peggy" Hirsh and other hard-boiled Hungarian, Polish and Italian laborers-first indifferent or hostile, then fascinated by the man who could paint in the sputter and glare of the open hearth and Bessemer converters-fight for the chance to have their faces immortalized on the cover of the Company...
...Soldiers Field the Freshmen put up a strong fight, but their opponents superior stick work kept them from approaching the Blue's goal. Feist and Captain Warron were the most dependable of the Crimson players, while Fox, White, and Hirsh starred for Yale...