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Died. Louise Beavers, 60, Ohio-born cinemactress, stereotype of a jolly Southern mammy as the screen's Aunt Delilah and TV's Beulah, though she neither liked nor knew how to make flapjacks; of diabetes; in Hollywood, Calif...
Among the subjects routinely satirized are the U.N., the Russians, TV commercials, Edward R. Murrow, and fallout shelters. Only a rather childish mind would think calling a Russian girl "Beulah Beulahvich" is funny, but Mr. Morey and Mr. Paul do it anyway in a scene about two Soviets in a satellite. After that howler is repeated, Beulah reads a letter from the government saying. "On Stalin Prize certificate for 1952, read 'Lenin.'" Very funy, or at least it would be if the joke weren't older than the actors. And so it goes, in so many scenes: the tried...
...hard-working missionaries toward greater efforts, Woodbury coined football-style "yells"' and such upbeat slogans as "Have Baptism, Will Travel.'' Mormons who exceeded their quotas of baptisms were allowed into an "Extra Mile Club.'' honored at hearty dinners given by Woodbury and his wife Beulah, 48, whom he calls "Bubbles...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Tomorrow, an adaptation of a William Faulkner short story, with Kim Stanley, Richard Boone, Beulah Bondi and Charles Bickford...
...Goodness Had Nothing to Do With It (Prentice-Hall; $3.95), Mae had perfected her inimitable style: the silken walk that suggests the meshing of superbly machined parts, the languid glance, the., lethargic but meaningful gestures, and the tantalizing drawl employed with devastating effect in sybaritic phrases such as "Beulah, peel me a grape," or "Come up 'n' see me sometime...