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APPRECIATION: Thank you and adieu to Captain Kangaroo...
...known as a child how good for me Robert J. (Bob) Keeshan intended Captain Kangaroo to be, I'm sure I never would have watched it. Keeshan, who died last Friday at 76 from a long illness, meant his children's show to counter TV's violence and hyperstimulation--all of which, of course, I consumed greedily on other programs. But like the orange-and-black "helping hand" signs in the windows of my 1970s Michigan neighborhood (telling kids to which houses they could run to escape from bad adults), the Captain's Place was a kind of haven...
...DIED. BOB KEESHAN, 76, who played the beloved children's show character Captain Kangaroo for 36 years on CBS-TV and public television; in Windsor, Vermont. Keeshan began acting in 1948 as the frenetic clown Clarabell on the Howdy Doody Show. Seven years later, at the age of 28, he debuted as the grandfatherly Captain Kangaroo, who was named for his multipocketed jacket. He taught subtle lessons in chats with characters like the animal-loving farmer Mr. Green Jeans, the carrot-craving Bunny Rabbit and the laconic Grandfather Clock. Keeshan, who didn't patronize his audience, lamented in 1993 that...
Quokka: My favorite Australian cuddly critter. Some dub it a cuter, smaller kangaroo; the cruel observer might describe it as a knee-high giant...
...restaurants as Gramercy Tavern and Chez Panisse, has started selling steak jerky for $29 per 9 oz. in the Williams-Sonoma catalog this fall. If your palate demands something more exotic, try game jerky by Covered Wagon Jerky in Derby, Kans. It offers wild boar, ostrich, pheasant and outback-kangaroo jerkies. --By Kristin Kloberdanz