Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oscar Handlin, Chairman of the History Department, stated that course reduction seems "abstractly desirable" in theory, but is rarely demanded in practice by students. But Handlin added that he advocated extending a "maximum of freedom" to students seeking course reduction...
Divorced. Judy Holliday (real name: Judith Tuvim), 37, bouncy blonde Oscar-winning cinemactress (Born Yesterday), currently wowing Broadway in the musi-comedy Bells Are Ringing; from Clarinetist David Oppenheim, 35; after nine years of marriage, 2½ of separation, one child; in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico...
This is a novel about people with beer tastes and champagne incomes. They are the reverse of Oscar Wilde's cynics, for they know the value of everything and the price of almost nothing. They spout dialogue like a Wall Street high-speed ticker, but the quotations mean less. At their best they are faulty reproductions of two old masters, Fitzgerald and Marquand. At their worst they share what 27-year-old Novelist Flood (whose 1953 novel. Love Is a Bridge, was much overpraised) seems to share with many another young writer these days-tired blood...
...Oscar Handlin, professor of History and chairman of the Committee on Teaching at the University, noted three considerations that should influence the choice of teaching as a career. He noted that the salaries among teachers were higher only than those of ministers in the Classes of '25 and '52, which his committee has subjected to special studies. He added parenthetically that perhaps this pointed up the "relation between social utility and remuneration" in American society...
...Oscar Handlin, professor of History, Arthur B. Perry, headmaster of Milton Academy, and Calvin E. Gross, a Schenectady, N.Y. principal, will be the speakers at tonight's Career Conference on Education...