Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speakers at the newly scheduled forum, "Limitations on Free Expression," will be Victor Laski, Oscar Handlin, associate professor of History, and John Clardi, instructor of English. Moderator will be cartoonist Al Capp...
...Quirino charged, were Nacionalistas, among them Ramon Magsaysay, the Huk-killing Defense Secretary who resigned last month to run against Quirino in next fall's presidential election campaign (TIME, March 9). The President did not mention that two other staunch Liberals, one of them his acting Defense Secretary, Oscar Castelo, were invited to the party but failed to show up. He accused Ambassador Spruance of plotting to sell Stevenson on Nacionalista policies by seating him in such a fashion that Nacionalistas could whisper in both his ears...
...they agreed not to report anything the committee wanted off-the-record. The reporters flatly rejected the proposal, which could trap them into being parties to news suppression. Next day, by voice vote, the North Carolina legislature rammed through a law legalizing closed appropriations-committee hearings. Argued State Representative Oscar G. Barker, onetime Durham Herald staffer: "The law will set democracy back not less than 100 years in North Carolina." Said the Raleigh News & Observer: "This law is designed to serve the darkness. It should have been entitled: An Act to Reiterate the Doctrine 'The Public Be Damned...
...Typography of Advertisements That Pay (still a bible to admen), and opened his own office designing ads, catalogues, wrappers, etc. He struck pay dirt with his first big newspaper job in 1936, when he redesigned the Los Angeles Times. The next year the paper won newspaperdom's "Oscar," the annual F. W. Ayer prize for the best-dressed paper, and his customers multiplied...
Come Back, Little Sheba. Burt Lancaster as a reformed drunk and Oscar-winning ("Best Actress") Shirley Booth as his slatternly wife in a film version of William Inge's play (TIME...