Word: baum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...again, and so will the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion. But OZ, which is now shooting in London, will be neither a musical nor a faithful retelling of the 1939 classic that starred Judy Garland. Based upon three of the books by Oz Creator L. Frank Baum, the $20 million "live-action adventure fantasy" promises to be something of a Star Woz, with veterans of that more modern epic creating special effects and producing the movie for Walt Disney. ("Toto, I really don't think we're in Kansas any more.") Dorothy will be played...
...Marine Corps sergeant who spent 31 months in Viet Nam, started with the A's: "David Aasen, Jose Abara, Richard Abbate . . ." The spare eulogy took the better part of three days, 1,000 names an hour, with only a few hours respite each morning. One reader was Caroline Baum, 26, a Quaker from Syracuse, N.Y. Said she after her 25 minutes at the altar: "Whether you believe in war or not, you should honor the dead who fought...
...position opened up when the President announce last week that Weiden baum would leave the post to return to a professorship at Washington University in St Louis...
...perhaps the most impassioned protester was Actress Margaret Hamilton, 79, who in the 1939 film version of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz brought to life the character of the Wicked Witch of the West. Last week Hamilton did it again by reading from the original L. Frank Baum children's favorite, which was banned by the Detroit public school system in 1957 for its overly "negative" outlook. "Book censorship is like them taking a book out of my own home," huffed Hamilton, something of an American classic herself...
...most West Coast fruit and vegetables are shipped East for sale either by truck or refrigerated rail car, some perishables, like plant-ripened strawberries, must be moved by plane. Last week California growers were shipping 400,000 lbs. of the fruit daily by air with no difficulty. Says Herbert Baum, president of Naturipe Berry Growers Inc., one of the state's largest agricultural cooperatives: "We had expected serious problems, but so far we have not been affected. We are quite surprised...