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Captain Kangaroo (CBS): Now in his 16th season, the Captain (Bob Keeshan) has never set his sights above 3 ft. 5 in. Says he: "Most people are doing children's shows until something better comes along. I never had a desire to do programs for adults. Children are a very warm audience." Keeshan (formerly Clarabelle the Clown on Howdy Doody) uses the Walter Cronkite approach, addressing the camera directly. His Miltown mood indicates that if the sky were falling, it would be about as important as a broken crayon. The gentleness tends to reassure parents, but children are more often...
Learning the Racks. Federated's West Coast subsidiary, Bullock's-Magnin Co., has expanded considerably under its president, William Keeshan, 48. The debonair brother of Actor Bob Keeshan, who plays TV's Captain Kangaroo, Bill Keeshan spent 17 years learning the racks at Bullock's, a Southern California department-store chain; in 1963 he became head of Magnin's, a Bullock's subsidiary. He helped swing his firm's bitterly divided board in favor of Federated's takeover bid in 1964, and last year the parent company chose Keeshan to head...
...Keeshan maintained Magnin's charm while spreading out-he added five stores-and opening some rich new merchandising lodes. He got Magnin's into the boutique concept early on, dividing selling space into small shops devoted to Courreges and other designers. He has not tampered with amenities like the gold-and-marble ladies' room, which makes the San Francisco store something of a tourist attraction and is duplicated in all Magnin's stores. Rival retailers take more interest in Magnin's 24-carat charge accounts, some of which run to $30,000 a month...
...Robert Keeshan, L.H.D., TV's "Captain Kangaroo." He has directed his abundant imagination to the education of children throughout the land...
...white chief of the Sigafoose Indians." Perhaps even more than they will miss Howdy or Bob, U.S. kids will miss the mute clown, Clarabell, who always sounded a sweet horn to indicate "yes," a sour one for "no" (the part, recently played by Lew Anderson, was originated by Bob Keeshan, who is the enduring star of CBS's Captain Kangaroo). And with them all went a memorable list of supporting figures: Mr. Bluster, the puppet heavy (the children in the audience always booed and hissed); Dilly-Dally, the sad-sack tot; Flubadub, the curious crossbreed with a duck...