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- PEOPLE, Page 71Oscar the Grouch
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- By MICHAEL QUINN
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- In 1946 HAROLD RUSSELL became the first disabled actor in
- history to win an Oscar. Last week he made Academy Award history
- again: Russell, now 78, became the first Oscar winner to sell
- his prized cinema statuette. After his hands were blown off in
- a World War II training accident, Russell went on to portray a
- wounded veteran in William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives
- and earned the industry nod for Best Supporting Actor. The
- $55,000 Russell reaped from the auction of that Oscar is 5 1/2
- times his Best Years' wages, and far more generous than a loan
- offer from a rather too appalled Academy of Motion Picture Arts
- and Sciences. Supporting Russell: co-star Theresa Wright. "She
- said, `Buster, go after it,' " Russell reports with undisguised
- glee.
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