Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...poet, the poet and an actress, the actress and a count, and the count and the original prostitute. This merry-go-round of sex is attended by an aloof interlocutor who explains that he represents the audience, and it revolves to the tune of a haunting waltz by Oscar Strauss...
Grand Scheme. The high sheen on Sun was due largely to one man, Hollywood's Oscar-winning Producer-Director Frank Capra, 58, who spent four years making the show. "It was a labor of love," he says. "I just wanted to prove science could be diverting." To Italian-born Showman Capra, a chemical-engineering graduate of Cal Tech, Mr. Sun is no documentary but "a show, with accurate physical facts-a fresh attempt to glamorize science." So are his three upcoming TV ventures for Bell: Hemo, The Magnificent, the story of blood and circulation; The Strange Case...
...Away from It, a revival of Frank Capra's 1934 Oscar-winning It Happened One Night, has withstood the ravages of time better than most. In its first release, the Samuel Hopkins Adams story of a runaway heiress (Claudette Colbert) and a jobless reporter (Clark Gable) who follows her movements with somewhat more than professional attention, was a sensation-and not only at the box office. It set a style of furiously farcical social satire that, during the rest of the decade, relieved the general depression with some of the wackiest, wittiest comedies (Nothing Sacred, Mr. Deeds Goes...
...Oscar Handlin, professor of History, rebutted in this month's Atlantic Monthly an article by Herbert R. Sass describing the South's position on racial segregation...
...problem of realizing a comprehensive set of morals today without returning to a traditional religious structure was raised by Oscar Handlin, professor of History, in a talk at Hillel House last night...