In the ears of many a scholar and 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 (The House of Connelly); Walter Francis White, secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (Rope and Faggot: A Biography of Judge Lynch); Linus Carl Pauling, Langmuir Prize-winner (scientific research); Arthur Holly Compton. Nobel Prizewinner.
Last week the year's list of 57 Guggenheim Fellowships, 20 less than last year's, was made public. Fifteen of the winners will visit the U. S. from Latin America. Among U. S. names: Authors Lewis Mumford, Evelyn Scott, Louis Adamic. Caroline Gordon Tate; Dancer Martha Graham; Painters Andrew Michael Dasburg. Ernest Fiene, Peter Blume; Sculptor Antonio Salamme; Critic Isaac Goldberg; Composer George Antheil; Moscow Correspondent William Henry Chamberlain of the Christian Science Monitor.