Word: osgoodly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cross-fertilization sometimes works so well that it proves distracting. Psychologist Charles Osgood of the University of Illinois came to write a book on language behavior, wound up studying Hopi Indians at the edge of the Grand Canyon. But the usual effect is heady reappraisal. One famed fellow recalls that his pre-Casbah world had shriveled to six friends with the same opinion. At his first Casbah meal, he was plumped down with a sociologist, a historian and a literary critic. "That first luncheon," he said, "was like opening windows in a stuffy room." Equally impressive is Yale Neurosurgeon Karl...
London. Michigan State University's Physicist Thomas H. Osgood...
...Veteran Producer-Director Mervyn (Random Harvest, Quo Vadis) Le Roy, last year took over a movie theater on Manhattan's First Avenue, remodeled it, presented Tennessee Williams' long-running Garden District. ¶ Anthony Perkins, 26, was a tot of five when his father, Broadway Matinee Idol Osgood Perkins, died. The versatile father's big reputation dragged the shy son into his own career, which now stands up solidly by itself with the Broadway triumph of Look Homeward, Angel and Hollywood stardom in Fear Strikes Out and Desire Under the Elms. ¶ John Kerr, 26, son of Actress...
...onetime Matinee Idol Osgood Perkins (who died in 1937), Tony scrambled into show business on his own. He finished 24th in a class of 25 at the Browne & Nichols school, later thumbed his way to Hollywood, got a screen test, ended up playing in The Actress with Jean Simmons. In 1954 he took over from John Kerr as the troubled adolescent in Broadway's Tea and Sympathy...
Miss Winn was on her way to classes on Feb. 17, 1956 when Osgood's automobile struck her scooter, causing her is fall and dislocating her shoulder...