Word: beavering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Disneyland (Wed. 7:30 p.m., ABC). Beaver Valley, an Academy Award-winning feature, and African Adventure...
Interpretative Reporting. In Sacramento, angry Motorist Ernest M. Blackburn was hauled off to jail after he refused to sign the traffic citation he received for driving too slowly unless Traffic Officer Ernest Jasper agreed to prefix his own signature with "Eager Beaver...
Every successful TV quiz show should have on its four-member panel 1) an eager beaver, 2) a funnyman, 3) a seriocomic (i.e., someone not quite as eager as the eager beaver and not quite as consciously funny as the funnyman), and 4) a guest or representative citizen...
...eager beaver is What's My Line?'s Dorothy Kilgallen, who often seems to have patterned her technique on that of tenacious Lawrence Spivak of Meet the Press. Hearst-Columnist Kilgallen is distinguished by her no-nonsense approach and her relentless slicing away of extraneous issues in solving such epic equations as whether a contestant is a rabbit poacher or a gravedigger by trade. Says Moderator John Daly admiringly: "Dottie follows a logical, syllogistic construction: she is more of a technician and a scientist in her approach." The only other quizzer to come close to equaling her eager...
Washington's Advertising Club, with eager-beaver young executives chainsmoking and fidgeting in their seats, provided a perfect audience last week for Industrial Medicine-Man Robert Collier Page (TIME. May 24). Warned Page: "Chances of getting ahead in the next decade . . . are going to be many times greater than anyone has ever known . . . Opportunity for every able man and woman, from office boy to vice president, will be spelled out in letters as big as barn doors . . . There is a terrible danger hidden in [this]: unless you are up to the challenge mentally and physically, your next promotion could...