Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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American Forum of the Air (Sun. 10:30 p.m., NBC & NBC-TV). Secretary of the Interior Oscar L. Chapman and Delaware's Republican Senator John J. Williams discussing "How Bad Is Corruption in Washington...
After he was sentenced to death for his attempted assassination of President Harry Truman in November 1950, Oscar Collazo† showed no regret. Though he had lived in the U.S. for 14 of his 38 years, he burned with an unquenchable conviction that the U.S. had "enslaved" his native Puerto Rico. In his cell in the District of Columbia prison, the fanatical nationalist spent his time studying Latin, teaching a fellow prisoner Spanish, poring over the biographies of the great liberators Bolivar and San Martin. He would sign no petition for clemency on his behalf addressed to the White House...
...hand as moderator, as in the old radio days, was urbane, acid Clifton Fadiman. Sitting on the panel were the old experts, John Kieran and Franklin P. Adams, and, as guest member of the panel, Author James (South Pacific) Michener (missing: wiseacre Pianist Oscar Levant, who now lives in California). After the familiar cockcrow and the challenge to "Wake up, America, time to stump the experts!" Video Veteran Fadiman (CBS's This Is Show Business) tried hard to settle his team into the old fluid pace of the radio series...
Last week Interior Secretary Oscar L. Chapman knocked such hopes on the head. He pointed out that any qualified citizen can get a three-year oil and gas lease on public lands at $30 per 40 acres, instead of the $100 and up charged by brokers. Citizens can take up to 2,560 acres in a single lease, up to 15,360 acres in one state. But, added the department, such leases are issued only on lands which are known to be outside of the geological structure of any producing oil or gas field (lands in known fields are sold...
...Oscar Hammerstein II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L.H.D...