Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Averell Harriman landed in Kansas City to get a farm-state tour off to a flying start by being photographed with Truman (who has permitted Harriman's aides to use his name in their approaches to delegates). On Harriman's heels was Truman's Interior Secretary Oscar Chapman, a Stevenson leader, arriving for a weekend in Independence; he felt confident that Truman would not try to block Adlai. Two days later Tennessee's Governor Frank Clement, the convention keynoter who-at 36-has hopes for the vice-presidential nomination, checked into Kansas City. Truman walked over...
Dyspeptic Pianist Oscar Levant and his local TV show (Words About Music) were scuttled by Los Angeles' station KCOP after Levant began neglecting music to make off-color comments on such interesting compositions as Marilyn Monroe and Richard Nixon. Moaned his ex-sponsor: "The show got too dirty. We want to sell carpets, not controversies." Confessed Wit Levant: "I was outraged at my taste . . . I'm like a middle-class James Joyce-extremely-self-conscious. The station left it up to my own judgment, which I don't have...
Born. To Olivia de Havilland, 40, two-time Oscar-winning cinemactress (To Each His Own, The Heiress), and Pierre Galante, 46, writer for the French picture magazine Paris-Match: their first child (her second), a daughter; by Caesarean section; in Paris. Name: Giselle. Weight...
...literary precursor of the novel was the tale, originally an oral narrative. In the hands of such latter-day practitioners as Oscar Wilde and Max Beerbohm, the tale became a highly sophisticated means of telling a story that would not be believable if told in any other tone of voice. In The Seven Islands, Novelist Jon (The House by the Sea) Godden makes the unbelievable believable by spinning with quiet skill a stately little tale about India and hanging from its frail threads the weight of an ancient way of life...
...Rose Tattoo. Anna Magnani, in her Oscar-winning role, serves up Tennessee Williams' comitragedy as a wonderful pizza-pie farce−and the spectator gets it smack in the eye (TIME...