Who Used the Academy Award Trophy as a Garage Door Jam?

An excerpt from an SF Gate article:

The nearly 50-year-old award was badly weathered. It’s unclear how that happened, but Saroyan’s contempt likely played a role.

Scott Setrakian, who said Saroyan kept the award in his garage as a door jam, told SFGATE, “It looked like someone had hit it with a hammer for 25 years.”

WILLIAM SAROYAN
1908–1981

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