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Actually, Swayze is more eager beaver than elephant. In preparing for the show, he reads the New York Times and the news weeklies avidly, clips whatever seems interesting and restudies his quotes before going on the air. On Sundays, he acts as M.C. of another NBC-TV show called Watch the World, a series of filmed subjects aimed at children...
Hurricane Time Prim & proper Fredericton never fails to loosen its stays a bit for a gay old time during the annual visit of New Brunswick's most illustrious native son, William Maxwell Aitken, Baron Beaverbrook, 72 this week. The Beaver, Britain's No. 1 newspaper lord, likes it that way. He seldom comes home, moreover, without bearing gifts for his pet philanthropy, the University of New Brunswick (total so far: $1,500,000), where he himself was once a brilliant, tippling, debt-ridden, poker-playing law student...
...Beaver's visit last week was no exception. This year's beneficence: a $265,000 library, 12,000 books, the private papers of two other New Brunswickers who made good-Prime Ministers R. B. Bennett of Canada and Bonar Law of Britain -and miscellaneous valuable manuscripts. Among the latter was a love letter from Admiral Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton, accusing her of flirting. Said the Beaver to a newsman: "Shows how disgracefully women can behave . . . She was just getting him all hotted...
...library presentation ceremony was held in the $250,000 Beaverbrook Gymnasium (his gift for 1939). Later, Beaverbrook presided with uninhibited gusto over a black-tie dinner, where he heard himself described as "an astounding combination of Puck and Napoleon." The Beaver lingered until 4 a.m., helping the 250 guests put away 95 bottles of champagne, uncounted slugs of whisky, with many a lusty song...
Busy as a beaver, he estimated his peak output at 350,000 words a year, occasionally resolved to ease off. "My New Year resolution," he swore to Ego at the beginning of 1945: "To do the work of two men instead of three." By then, that 13-year labor of self-love had grown to seven volumes (final total: nine). Into it, Agate had poured his "insane desire" for immortality, and a volley of educated banter ranging from Bernhardt to boogie-woogie, censorship to Sartre...