Guggenheim Fellows

For the scientist, scholar, writer or artist who is awarded one, a Guggenheim Fellowship usually means a year of extracurricular leisure to work unhurriedly on a pet project. But last week the Guggenheim Foundation, awarding 82 fellowships for the coming year, found it necessary to warn its fellows that this is a year when leisure cannot be guaranteed; its awards are subject to interruption for calls to Government service. Example: Stanford University's Dr. Merrill Kelley Bennett, who went to Honolulu last summer as a Guggenheim fellow to study food, wound up as a statistician in the Food Control office, keeping tabs on Hawaii's food supply.

Some of the 1942 fellows:

> British Poet W. H. Auden and a 23-year-old New Jersey taxi driver named George Zabriskie. who has published a volume of poems (The Mind's Geography) ; to write poetry.

> Novelists Eudora Welty (A Curtain of Green) and Carson McCullers (The Heart is a Lonely Hunter); to write novels.

> U.C.L.A.'s Professor Dixon Wecter; to write "a history of the Roosevelt family in America."

> Author John Dos Passos; to write a biography of Thomas Jefferson.

> Columbia's Fine Arts Professor Meyer Schapiro; to prepare a collection of medieval manuscript art.

> McGill's Professor Charles Leonard Huskins; to prepare a book on the cytology and genetics of plants, animals and man.

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