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Announcement has recently been made of the John Simon Guggenheim Fellows for the year 1926 to 1927. An appropriation of $100,000 for the assistance of 37 young American scholars and artists has been made among whom are four Harvard teachers, giving the University the lead over all other Institutions in the number of Fellows chosen from its staff. The four Harvard men who have been given awards are Dr. Kenneth John Conant '15, Dr. Ralph Monroe Eaton Ph. D. '15, Dr. Edwin Crawford Kemble G. '17, and Dr. Walter Sliz...
Engaged. John Chipman Farrar, editor of the Bookman, author of Songs for Parents, The Magic Sea Shell, etc.; to Miss Margaret Petherbridge, cross word puzzle editor of the New York World, co-author of the Simon and Schuster crossword puzzle books, daughter of H. W. Petherbridge, treasurer of the National Licorice Co. of Brooklyn. He and she graduated, in 1919, respectively from Yale and Smith Colleges, and both joined the staff of the World soon afterward. He left the World to edit the Bookman in 1921 and was made a general editorial adviser to its publishers, George H. Doran...
...slap in the face of smiling Prosperity could not pass unrequited. One of the world's largest real estate financiers, Simon William Straus, took notice, issued a statement which came quickly to the point...
Another case the committee called to attention is that of "Black and Simon." Black owned one-third of a certain oil property, and Simon one-quarter of the same property. The taxes were computed at separate times and apparently by different Treasury experts, whose judgments differed. The result was that Simon's tax was larger than Black's. The Treasury has not, however, closed the case...
Guinzburg was in the newspaper business for a time after leaving College, and then was with Simon and Shuster, publishers, whom he represented in Europe. Oppenheimer was for some years advertising manager for Alfred A. Knopf...