Take No. 98 of the Oscars Hark! On March 15, at 7 p.m., ABC’s 98th  Oscars  thing, burbled by Conan O’Brien, starts — three weeks away. Oy, be still my heart. The awards originally began in 1929. Underwhelmed, Time magazine gave it one paragraph afterward. Same page, only larger paragraph, John D. Rockefeller III was reported “to have just been voted the third most pious” by his Princeton class. Also on the same page was info on a new Ford factory being built in England. What could be better