Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...debut in 1906 doing muta-scopes (still pictures flipped before the viewer's eye). Second in command to Director D.W. Griffith on The Birth of a Nation (1915), Crisp directed the film's battle scenes and played the part of General Grant. In 1941 he earned an Oscar for portraying Mr. Morgan in How Green Was My Valley, his 135th film, then went on to make some 300 more movies. He appeared as Elizabeth Taylor's father in National Velvet (1944), and was last seen as Grandpa in the 1963 heart-warmer Spencer's Mountain...
...stock analyst of Wall Street's Bregman Securities Co., reports that last fall A. & P. began hiking its prices substantially in the Midwest and Northeast. A recent comparison-shopping survey by the Croton Consumer Action Organization in New York's Westchester County found that a pound of Oscar Mayer bacon cost $1.39 at A. & P. v. $1.19 at Grand Union; a 9-oz. package of Birds Eye frozen green beans, 33? v. 31?; Kraft mayonnaise, 63? v. 69?; 5 lbs. of Florida oranges 89? v. 69?; a pound of Land O'Lakes butter...
...OSCAR for most dramatic acting while cast in the role of a baseball umpire, goes hands down to Giles Threadgold for his colorful style on the field...
...Oscar Handlin, Pforzheimer University Professor, said last night that each University Professorship is "a deal...
...UMass touched Pura for two runs in the eighth and four in the ninth on Pete Backstrom's double and the four-bagger by Mundalto. With one out in the tenth and the ducks on the pond for the Minutemen, pinch designated hitter Oscar Fontaine rapped a single to hand Pura the loss...