Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like winning an Oscar for Cinemactress Claudette Colbert, when a cosmetic company bought her oil portrait of Gloria (Mrs. Jimmy) Stewart to use in its 1951 advertising campaign, and gave her another commission to paint one of Teresa Wright. Painting, Claudette explained, was an old ambition brought to a head three years ago when she read Winston Churchill's Painting as a Pastime. "I figured if he had time, then I had time...
...vacation injuries should not prevent the track team from taking its third straight indoor meet tomorrow when Jaskko Mikkola's athletics will be top-heavy favorites over Oscar Hedlund's weak and inexperienced M.I.T. squad...
Married. Henry (Mr. Roberts) Fonda, 45, actor; and Susan Blanchard, 22,cinema starlet, stepdaughter of Producer-Songwriter Oscar (South Pacific) Hammerstein 2nd; he for the third time, she for the first; in Manhattan...
...Maid. In Oklahoma City, Audrey Lee Williams told the assistant county attorney she did not want to press the assault-with-intent-to-kill charges she had lodged against Oscar Junior Johnson because "as soon as he gets out of jail, I'm going to marry...
...Oscar Handlin, associate professor of History, decries this situation in an article for this month's "Atlantic Monthly" entitled, "Yearning for Security...