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...jumped overboard from a ship in the convoy and swam to the North Carolina shore. He also reported that when the convoy stopped at Cork in February, Allen was greeted ecstatically by sympathetic Irishmen, who showered on Allen such luxuries as wool cloth for suits, a couple of beaver hats, several turkeys, sugar loaves and pickled beef...
...practical lecture, but it was a brilliant elucidation of a topic that's worth a lot of thought," said Philip E. McCurdy '56, headmaster of Beaver Country Day School in Chestnut Hill...
...worried parents enough to get the show canned. Suburban Seattle Housewife Christine Matkovick has been calling executives of companies whose products are pitched on Mary, at 5 p.m. locally, and at least half a dozen sponsors have pulled out. But with youngsters deserting the competition-Leave It to Beaver reruns-the Seattle station is so far standing...
...reports Cohen. He calculates that the minicatalogue will produce $100,000 to $250,000 in additional sales this Christmas; that will be exceptionally profitable volume, since Bloomingdale's got suppliers to pay nearly all the advertising cost. Already orders are flowing in from Rapid City, S. Dak.; Mitchell, Ind.; Beaver, Okla.; and Saginaw, Mich., among other places far from New York...
...valley, 16,000 acres of national forest land high in the southern Sierra Nevada. Controversy erupts, fueled by the public's revived awareness of environmental abuse. Behind the contested $35-40 million project is not ITT but the corporation created by a childhood exemplar of the Leave-It-to-Beaver generation--the father of Bugs Bunny and Donald Duck, Walt Disney. Thus fell another idol of Maynard's generation...