Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tribute to Gertrude Lawrence (Sun. 7 p.m., NBC). With Bea Lillie, Oscar Hammerstein II, Mary Margaret McBride...
Dudley's Commuters, favored to win the league title for the second straight year, have already beaten Lowell and Leverett in their first two games. Oscar Swenson is playing in the goal, with Art Tallis, outstanding defenseman in the league during the last two seasons, Tom Lloyd, and Jim Murray alternating at defense. The first line consists of Bob Provost, Paul Brennan, and freshman Don McNell, Dudley's second line, with Pete Hoagland, Bob Danbar and Wes Wadman, is better than average...
...Oscar H. Williams of New York presented the writings in the name of his wife, Gene Derwood, who died in 1953. Two paintings of Thomas by Mrs. Williams are included in the collection...
...institution, but not as an occasional form of criminal behavior. The U.S. Department of Justice from time to time finds violators of the anti-peonage act of 1867; since mid-1950 it has successfully prosecuted ten. Last week Federal Judge Seybourn H. Lynne in Birmingham sentenced Farmers Oscar and Fred Dial to 18 months in prison for holding Negroes in involuntary servitude...
...Died. Oscar ("Papa") Celestin, seventyish, oldtime hot trumpeter of New Orleans jazz, best loved in his home town of all the great Negro jazz musicians; of cancer; in New Orleans. At Papa's funeral, more than a thousand friends and ad mirers turned out while two bands of fellow jazzmen played dirges in the two-mile procession to the church...