Word: oscared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Packed with pictures and color, it had a heavy concentration of anti-American articles. They discussed the iniquities of U.S. comic strips, the horrors of U.S. "boastfulness," and U.S. failure to recognize Argentine greatness. Argentina, aimed at the Argentine intelligentsia, carried little advertising. Its editor was Secretary of Education Oscar Ivanissevich, 53, onetime ambassador...
...modernized production: "Oscar Hammerstein II did a splendid job in modernizing Bizet's Carmen . . . Even so, is there a single opera fan who would attend more than one or two performances of Carmen Jones...
Died. Victor Fleming, 60, top-drawer Hollywood director (Joan of Arc); of a heart attack; near Cottonwood, Ariz. Fleming made his reputation directing Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy and Jean Harlow (Test Pilot, Captains Courageous, Bombshell), won a 1939 Oscar for Gone With the Wind...
...National Cancer Institute awarded the College $30,615 "to support laboratory and clinical research in cancer," Federal Security Administrator Oscar R. Ewing announced yesterday. The Institute distributed 18 grants totalling $209,838, of which $20,000 went to the Boston University School of Medicine and $9,000 to Tufts College Medical School...
Secretary of Education Oscar Ivanissevich, onetime ambassador to the U.S. and a skilled surgeon, had just the man. He called on Professor Stanley D. Tylman of the University of Illinois, who had just arrived to lecture on crown and bridge processes at the University of Buenos Aires. Dr. Tylman was willing. Oliva Paz went along as interpreter. The examination went something like this...