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...dedicated to the proposition that boys will be boys. Its hero is an eight-year-old boy named Beaver ("Is that your given name?" asks a puzzled teacher. "Yes, my brother give it to me"). Beaver (Jerry Mathers) and brother Wally (Tony Dow). 12, and their attractive parents (Hugh Beaumont and Barbara Billingsley) add up to a pleasant, occasionally touching image of togetherness in sunny suburbia. But the boys are also lineal descendents of Tom Sawyer. Penrod and Skippy in a tradition of carrying a dead goldfish in pants pocket, enduring the first black eye and the first crush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

...attractive red-haired housewife named Elsie May Keene walked into the office of K. F. Reynard in Beaumont, Texas, told him a physician had said she was dying of diabetes. Reynard, one of Texas' 400 practicing naturopaths, knew just what to do for her. First he gave her repeated enemas. Next he administered the pendulum test-a piece of steel supported on chains between two rods which he held over Mrs. Keene's heart. "Your heart is beating too fast and the blood pressure is too high," he told her. His diagnosis continued: a large heart lesion which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Texas Quackdown | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

...bitterly to his directors. Students began circulating a petition that accused the board of denying the "right of all men to freedom of speech and the right to voice opinions." By week's end the storm had spread far beyond the borders of the campus. Said the conservative Beaumont Enterprise: "The practice of firing teachers who express opinions on pertinent questions of the day can become a vicious and monstrous thing in any state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Monstrous Thing | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

...petroleum products, including construction of a $13 million, 230-mile additional 14-in. spur from Seymour, Ind. to Chicago. To continue its present gas deliveries to the East, Texas Eastern will spend another $61 million on loops and compressors primarily along 453 miles of its 30-in. line from Beaumont, Texas to Uniontown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Growing by Inches | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

...proposed Chicago spur to their profit, while Sinclair, Texas and Gulf are talking about a similar products line to be constructed next year from outside Philadelphia to Cleveland. In addition, Texas Eastern got FPC permission last year to spend $74.7 million on a 422-mile line south from near Beaumont, which will soon bring in the first major imports of Mexican gas from across the border. By such hustle, Texas Eastern (gross 1956 sales: $175.2 million) upped earnings per share last year to $2.05, believes that its 1,700-mile products line, added to gas lines totaling 5,800 miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Growing by Inches | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

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