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Last seen on: Daily Boston Globe Crossword Monday, 27 November 2023
Random information on the term “Grand slam”:
The Grand Slam in tennis is the achievement of winning all four major championships in one discipline in a calendar year. In doubles, a team may accomplish the Grand Slam playing together or a player may achieve it with different partners. Winning all four major championships consecutively but not within the same calendar year is referred to as a “non-calendar-year Grand Slam”, while winning the four majors at any point during the course of a career is known as a “Career Grand Slam”.
The Grand Slam tournaments, also referred to as majors, are the world’s four most important annual professional tennis tournaments. They offer the most ranking points, prize money, public and media attention, the greatest strength and size of field, and the longest matches for men (best of five sets, best of three for the women). The tournaments are overseen by the International Tennis Federation (ITF), rather than the separate men and women’s tour organizing bodies, the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) and Women’s Tennis Association (WTA), but both the ATP and WTA award ranking points based on players’ performances in them.
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The 18th Academy Awards were held on March 7, 1946, at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre to honor the films of 1945. Being the first Oscars after the end of World War II, the ceremony returned to the glamour of the prewar years; notably, the plaster statuettes that had been used during the war were replaced by bronze statuettes with gold plating and an elevated base.
Despite the optimistic postwar mood, director Billy Wilder’s grim and socially significant drama The Lost Weekend won the major awards of Best Picture and Best Director, as well as two other awards. It was the first film to win both Best Picture and the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
Best Actress nominee Joan Crawford was absent, claiming she had pneumonia (although it was said it was because she was sure she would not win the Oscar for Mildred Pierce). When she won, the award was delivered to her, still in bed, later that night.
This was the first year in which every film nominated for Best Picture won at least one Oscar, and also the first time a sequel (The Bells of St. Mary’s) was nominated for Best Picture.