Guggenheim Fellows

The 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 to the 1929 peak, awarded 85 fellowships. Noteworthy was the fact that 14 fellows are to work in Latin America, that one is a scientist doing important work on U. S. defense. Some awards:

> Chemist Aristid V. Grosse, to work in Columbia University's physics laboratory on secret processes for using U-235 (uranium isostope) as a source of power.

> Author Arthur J. Marder, of Dorchester, Mass., to write a book on British sea power, and Professor Gerald S. Graham, of Canada's Queen's University, to write one about sea power's influence on Canada.

> Carey McWilliams, author (Factories in the Field) and director of California Immigration and Housing, to study plantation labor in Hawaii.

> Historian Gustavus Myers (History of the Great American Fortunes}, to write a book on "the sources of bigotry in the U. S."

> Textile Designer Ruth Reeves, of Manhattan, to continue a study of South American textiles.

> Author Wilbur J. Cash (The Mind of the South), to write a book in Mexico.

> Composer Marc Blitzstein (The Cradle Will Rock), to write a musical play.

> Composer Earl Robinson (Ballad for Americans), to finish a musical dramatization of Carl Sandburg's The People, Yes.

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