Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Liebman Presents (Sat. 9 p.m., NBC). The Chocolate Soldier, operetta by Oscar Straus, starring Rise Stevens...
...finished editing Carl Solberg's fine takeout on the late great Welsh Poet DYLAN THOMAS (see BOOKS), Senior Editor Henry Anatole Grunwald recalled a small chapter of the Thomas legend: once the poet had wanted to write for TIME. In 1945 Thomas asked U.S. Poet-Critic OSCAR WILLIAMS: "Could you approach TIME - whom you suggested as possible employers - and get some definite promise, however small, from them?" Unfortunately, Thomas postponed his trip to America five years and never came to TIME...
SEVEN LETTERS TO OSCAR WILLIAMS (13 pp.) - Dylan Thomas - in New World Writing #7 - New American Library...
Even knocking out a clowning letter to New York Poet Oscar Williams, Thomas could not help writing vivid prose. On a plane trip back from New York: "It was stormy and dangerous, and only my iron will kept the big bird up; lightning looked wonderful through the little eyeholes in its underbelly; the bar was open all the way from Newfoundland; and the woman next to me was stone-deaf so I spoke to her all the way, more wildly and more wildly as the plane lurched on through dark and lion-thunder and the firewater yelled through my blood...
...newest jazz styles are bouncing out of some of the oldest countries and vice versa, at least in Angel's six LPs of transoceanic combos. From among the historic ruins comes Italian Jazz Stars, with its display of long, contrapuntal lines and cool U.S. flavors. Among the stars: Oscar Valdambrini and his neat, confident trumpeting (in La barca del sogni); Roberto Nicolosi and his hip orchestra (in something called C collaboration). Out of the newest culture of all comes Inside Jazz Down Under, with Graeme Bell and his jazz band, and the style is pure Old New Orleans...