OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY GENERAL 
CABLE ADDRESS • GUGMEMORA 
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JOHN SIMON GUGGENHEIM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION 
551 FIFTH AVENUE-NEW YORK-N-Y- 
January 31, 1957 
Dr. Alexander Vetmore 
Drawer C 
Balboa, Canal Zone 
Dear Alex: 
■When you say what you say about the Biology 
group, in the Targe and in detail, it makes me feel good. For I 
love to use the Foundation's money to help good people, and, similarly, 
it makes me feel low when we have not a long list of good people to 
help. The Science groups are terrific this year and the humanities 
groups are better than ever. I told the Finance Committee so and 
they hiked the Fellowship budget, for 1957, to one and a half million 
dollars. I don't yet know how good the arts groups are, having had 
no time to get at them yet. 
Bea and you may go ahead and admire your weather? 
for here it is not good. There has been sheet-ice for two days up 
where I live and this morning something like a young blizzard started, 
and now it appears to me that it's building up. 
I guess we had better defer Biaggi to the 
Inter American Fellowship meeting. 
All the best to you both from usl 
Sincerely yours. 
HAM:ck 
