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...less than two years, an immigrant Norwegian family has climbed from TV obscurity to the top ten in national ratings. In its successful rise, Mama (Fri. 8 p.m., CBS) has never once raised its voice, stood on its head, or mugged to a studio audience, as do most of its competitors...
...there is nothing earth-shaking about the Hanson family, there is nothing inconsequential either. The scripts, by Writer Frank Gabrielson, are often toughly realistic. Son Nels (Dick Van Patten), pushed too hard by family pride, is shown cheating in an exam for grades to impress his parents. Mama herself, expertly played by Actress Peggy Wood, is human enough to get in a temper just because she's having a bad day. Earnest, bumbling father Lars (Judson Laire), who often wears his head, as well as his heart, on his sleeve, can be as calamitously wrong in business as over...
...Though Mama sometimes looks at the ruder aspects of life, it still sees them through a romantic haze. Things seldom go absolutely right; they never go irrevocably wrong. For most of Mama's big, fond audience, the family favorite is pig-tailed Dagmar, caught at just the right note of sentiment and practicality by nine-year-old Robin Morgan. In theory, each Mama episode takes up a different member of the family; in practice, Robin often steals the show. Producer Carol Irwin observes with awe that radio-trained Robin has somehow developed a "wonderful sense of timing...
...Rome last week, Renato Roberto Giusto Giuseppe Rossellini celebrated his first birthday. Beaming Parents Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini served up a cake with one candle. Young Rossellini weighs 25 pounds, is healthy, husky, blond-haired, has eight teeth, can stand holding to a chair and say "Mama" and "Papa...
...driving whites into terrified hiding. Singapore's Malay police seemed to have no heart to restrain their coreligionists. British and Gurkha troops, with bayonets and riot shields, barred the mob from a march on the Convent of the Good Shepherd, four miles outside the city, where Bertha and mama Hertogh waited for a plane to Holland. There the girl doffed her Moslem veil for European dress, tried to remember her Dutch, fondled a doll, told her mother: "It's hard having two mothers. I love you, and I love Aminah...