Word: davids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...real payoff was at the box office, and the scramble for the little statuettes was long and rough. Since most of the Academy's 2,087 voters are in Hollywood, the trade papers were barraged with publicity as carefully aimed as that in any congressional race. Actor David Niven, clearly a red-hot contender, paid for some $1,500 worth of personal ads for himself. His producers, Hecht-Hill-Lancaster. shelled out even more. "We evaluate the opposition," explained one film flack, "and figure how we go from there...
...hoopla, the awards themselves brought few surprises. There were so many Oscars available (23 in all) that Gigi, winner of the Best Movie award, was able to dance off with eight subsidiary awards without really hogging the show. Best Actress Susan Hayward (7 Want To Live!) and Best Actor David Niven (Separate Tables) were popular favorites. Nobody disapproved of Burl Ives's Best Supporting Actor award either. Nor was the crowd too upset that Britain's Wendy Hiller was named Best Supporting Actress for her relatively small role in Separate Tables...
Instead of waiting as usual for the United Steelworkers to strike the first blow in contract negotiations, management made the first move. To the Steelworkers' President David J. McDonald last week went a letter from twelve big steel companies asking for a one-year extension from this June 30 of the present wage agreement, without any increase in benefits. Although the recovery is making "moderate progress," said the letter, there is a disturbing "bulge of synthetic demand" created by fear of a steel strike, and it could lead to "decline and dislocation" later. To keep the economy...
Near the end of the game, center David Holmes, deeply gashed by Phil Tarasovic, kicked to the Blue 25, where forwards Albie Cullen and Bill Morse dribbled towards the goal. Fullback Dick O'Neill, charging up from behind, made the try following which Graham Russell converted. It was a discouraging loss, but the Crimson showed it can still win the league title...
...signers, David Riesman '31, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, said he believed the members of the AEC are "patriotic men. They feel that tension between the United States and Russia must be kept up in order to maintain morale in the armed forces and places like Los Alamos," he continued, "and they have turned to mendacious activities in order to maintain this tension...