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...Culver), is a remarkable institution. It has two establishments. For five months (in fall and spring) it lives Spartanly in the Blue Ridge foothills at Gainesville, Ga.; each winter it goes for three months to its castle in Florida. Most remarkable thing about Riverside is its headmaster, General Sandy Beaver...
Mayor Hartsfield urged every Atlanta woman and maid to put on hoop skirts and pantalets, appealed to every Atlanta male to don tight trousers and a beaver, sprout a goatee, sideburns and Kentucky colonel whiskers. He also requested citizens not to tear off the clothes of visiting movie stars, as happened in Kansas at the premiere of Dodge City...
Until recent years the beaver was seen only in woodsy ponds, traps, men's hats, women's sport coats, alphabet books. Three years ago he appeared in the Government's Interior Department, which employed him to dam streams, in projects ranging from erosion control to better housing for trout. For this job he received no wage at all; he did it just because he loved the work...
Last week the increasingly social beaver appeared in court, defendant in a complaint brought by Connecticut's Highway Department that a dam was creating a flood danger. Connecticut's Attorney General Pallotti ruled that the dam might legally be destroyed, summarily summed up: "In the case of rational animals we know that the individuals' rights are inferior to those of the State. Following this rule, we must conclude that these animals, being irrational, must also give way to the rights of the State. However, as in the case of human beings, where just compensation is provided...
...beaver, who knows when he is out on a limb, prepared to vacate...