Word: oscarization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Overwhelmed. In Council Bluffs, Iowa, a grade teacher spotted twins in her class who dressed alike, looked alike, knew she was headed for trouble when she learned their names: Oliver Oscar Over and Oscar Oliver Over...
...such a nice scene: it deserved to be engraved on a World's Fair souvenir spoon. Dr. Oscar Ivanissevich, the new Argentine ambassador to the U.S., was presenting his credentials to President Harry Truman. Dr. Ivanissevich was smiling and the President was smiling, and they were both saying what fine countries the other represented. It was hard to remember that only a few months ago the State Department was spreading the idea that Argentina's President Juan Peron was nothing but a fascist jerk...
...falling downstairs. Whether it has gone far enough to be music in its own right, few music critics are willing to assert. But last week two scores by Hollywood's No. 1 sound-track composer, Miklos Rozsa, were fast-moving items. His Spellbound Concerto, adapted from his Oscar-winning music for Spellbound, had sold 100,000 sets at $4 each; his Lost Weekend music was one of Victor's top ten "semi-classical" sellers...
Divorced. Oscar Homolka, 45, stage star (I Remember Mama), film character actor (Rhodes, Ebb Tide); by third wife Florence Meyer Homolka, 35, daughter of Washington Post Owner and World Bank President Eugene Meyer; after seven years of marriage, two sons; in Hollywood...
...high command of the Giulian Communist Party is the U.A.L.S. (Italo-Slovene Union of Anti-Fascists), a small inner-sanctum group whose chief strategist is Professor Oscar Ferlan. He concedes that Tito's Government is a dictatorship, but claims: "In Trieste as in Yugoslavia, the minority must act for the good of the majority...