Last week 60 ambitious U. S. citizens, including a shop salesman and a post-office clerk, trembled with excitement to hear that next year they could throw up their jobs, settle down somewhere to do the work they like best. In Manhattan the $4,700,000 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed in 1925 by Mining Tycoon Simon Guggenheim and his wife Olga Hirsh Guggenheim, was ready to give its 1937 Fellows $115,000 with no strings attached. Two thousand dollars was the average stipend.
Of the 60 Fellows one-half are hardworking scholars and scientists who need money to travel, buy books and equipment. Such a...
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