Word: oscared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Oscar Handlin is posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor after he deftly parachutes through North Vietnamese antiaircraft fire in a futile attempt to rescue Harrison Salisbury. Vassar's president Simpson says he is "leaning" toward Princeton...
...Oscar Handlin, Charles Warren Professor of American History, receives his induction notice. Visibly upset, Handlin appeals for support to the Harvard Faculty, but his request is tabled without discussion. "If just didn't seem to be an issue of any academic significance," explains John Rawls, professor of Philosophy...
...night last week, Colonel Ileto got a tip from a government informer that the elusive Oscar was hiding near by. Hastily the colonel sent seven army and constabulary platoons in searchlight-carrying, armored personnel carriers to a house near the village of San Pablo, 40 miles north cf Manila. Realizing that they were outgunned, the Huks inside agreed to surrender. But while 13 men, women and children filed out the front door, four rebels tried to make a break for it across the back porch roof. Aided by the glare of the searchlights, the troopers picked off the first three...
Consolation Oscar. For a little bit of luck, up popped Walt Disney, who wanted Julie to play Mary Poppins and Walton to do the set and costume-design. Julie was dubious. Recalls Julie's pal Carol Burnett: "She asked me, 'Do you think I ought to? Go to work for Walt Disney? The cartoon person?' " Carol assured her that Disney did indeed do other things besides cartoons. Later, Julie got a telephone call from Poppins' author, Pamela Travers. "P. Travers here," said P. Travers briskly. "Speak to me. Can you be tough? Can you be tender...
...both, and an Oscar winner to boot, although there was no doubt that the award was at least partly a consolation prize from Hollywood sentimentalists who thought Julie should have got the film role in Fair Lady...