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...open end is filled with dozens of beaver-busy organizations in a daily boil of dances, pageants, picnics-holding "buzz sessions," helping out with "sicking" (i.e., sick calls) and organizing "casserole brigades." There are hunting and fishing groups, a men's discussion group named The Carpenters ("they try to face real realities"), a Woman's Association, a boys' hot-rod group, "family festivals," camps for all ages, a radio program, a chatty church newspaper, ten choirs ("SING! SING! SING!" says a recruiting pamphlet). In a recent sermon, one minister ruefully quoted a newcomer as saying to another...
...Tonight from the junk heap. Studio One produced The Deaf Heart (TIME. Nov. 4), a striking first script by a highly promising 29-year-old playwright named Mayo Simon, but nobody seems to know whether he can ride or shoot. Of the new situation comedies, only Leave It to Beaver (see below) has taken fire. Among minor new wrinkles: ABC's All-Star Golf (TIME, Dec. 23), a tournament played just for viewers; a vogue for old horror movies; the bold, brash (though often anticlimactic) interviews of Mike Wallace...
Leave It to Beaver: The season's most amiable new comedy series and most agreeable surprise is deftly 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...
...Goodby, darling," trilled Lord Beaver-brook's Daily Express. "We're going to miss you," echoed the Daily Mail. But Lord Shrewsbury, Premier Earl of England and the father of four daughters (one out last year, one coming out in the last batch of debs for this year, and two now doomed to stay "in" forever), admitted: "Candidly, it will be a financial boon." The only truly crestfallen mourners were the battalion of aristocratic British gentlewomen in reduced circumstances who for years have eked out their meager pensions by sponsoring (for fees running as high...
Mamie's beaver coat was merely another of the thousands of gadgets, gimcracks and articles pressed on Presidents and their wives by well-meaning U.S. groups. (Ike once got a readymade flower bed.) The chief complaint, if beaver does come back, may come from U.S. husbands who have hocked themselves for mink...