Each year the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation selects a few Americans considered likely to add to the "scholarly and artistic power" of the U. S., pays their living expenses so they may work at what pleases them. This week the Foundation granted $135,000 to 58 men & women chosen from 1,000 applicants. Some of the 1938 Guggenheim fellows:
History. Josef Berger, of Provincetown, Mass, and the Federal Writers' Project, author of Cape Cod Pilot—to collect in a book the tall tales of Portuguese fishermen in Gloucester and other New England ports.
Music. Carlos Chavez, Mexican maestro who recently succeeded Arturo Toscanini as conductor of two National Broadcasting Co. concerts—to compose music.
Politics & Economics. Charles Rumford Walker, free-lance writer of Wilton, Conn.—to study the influence of radical political movements in the U. S. since 1917.
Lexicography. Allen Walker Read, assistant editor of the Dictionary of American English being written at University of Chicago—to compile (on the theory that the real English language is American English) a dictionary of "Briticisms."
Biology. Colin Campbell Sanborn, curator of mammals in Chicago's Field Museum—to prepare "a taxonomic revision of six families of bats."