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...Guggenheim Memorial Foundation is 1) a leading patron of U. S. art and scholarship, 2) an index of prosperity. Founded 16 years ago by former U. S. Senator Simon Guggenheim and his wife, each year it selects a group of bright young men and women, gives them about $2,500 apiece to be free for a year to write a novel, paint a picture, examine a star. The number of its fellowships depends on the fund's income (one of its chief investments: copper). Their peak: 86 in 1929. Last week the Foundation climbed back almost...
With this issue TIME begins publication of a new production index to measure U. S. industrial trends in a world now guided by war economics...
Power in Extremity. In Belgrade, key to the whole Balkan tangle for the moment, there was a strange gaiety last week. The most reliable index of Yugoslavia's enthusiasm is the amount of glass that gets broken. In Belgrade champagne bottles, having uttered their pops and spilled their bubbles, smashed against walls. Glasses, having been touched in toast, crashed into fireplaces. Siphon bottles, mirrors, windows were broken in greatest good humor...
...already opened his window one morning and invited a squirrel to breakfast on some unpopped popcorn, only to arouse the whole dormitory a few minutes later when he went dancing down the corridors trying to shake choose the squirrel which had tenaciously fastened his teeth on Shea's right index finger...
...year's end the Federal Reserve Board Index showed U. S. industrial production: 1. Falling off slightly as defense orders lagged...