Word: awards
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DIED. Edmond O'Brien, 69, stocky, heavy-jowled, Academy Award-winning actor who played tough guys in such film noir classics as The Killers (1946), A Double Life (1948) and D.O.A. (1950), and who later had memorable character roles in Seven Days in May (1964) and The Wild Bunch (1969); of Alzheimer's disease; in Inglewood, Calif. He won an Oscar as best supporting actor for his portrayal of a sycophantic Hollywood press agent in 1954's The Barefoot Contessa...
...that it would befit tradition for the other President to make a speech. The White House people were very polite, explaining that the President liked the idea but that they could not confirm a date that far away. Assuming he could come, they added rather pointedly, would Harvard award him an honorary degree? Well. Such awards, of course, are decided by a sacred convocation and are hardly tossed around loosely. When word of the White House feeler got around, some of the faculty became rather petulant. John Womack Jr., chairman of the history department, said, "I'd feel ashamed...
DIED. Albert Maltz, 76, Academy Award- winning screenwriter who was imprisoned for ten months, then blacklisted by the film community in the 1950s and early '60s after refusing to testify before Congress about his Communist associations; in Los Angeles. His Oscars were for wartime documentaries: Moscow Strikes Back (1942) and The House I Live In (1945); among his other notable screenplays were This Gun for Hire (1942) and The Naked City (1948). "To understand all," he once said of the blacklist and his years of Mexican exile and pseudonymous work, "is not to forgive...
Howard H. Lebowitz '85 of Kirkland House last night was presented the first annual Philips Brooks award for has dedicated to Philips Brooks House...
...Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Minister in Memorial Church, who presented the award to Lebowitz at last night's benefit concert by cellist Yo-Yo Ma '76, praised Lebowtiz for his work with children in Canton, Mass who are victims of spina bifida...