The Great Gildersleeve: Leila Leaves Town / Gildy Investigates Retirement / Gildy Needs a Raise
The Great Gildersleeve: Leila Leaves Town / Gildy Investigates Retirement / Gildy Needs a Raise – Aiding and abetting the periodically frantic life in the Gildersleeve home was family cook and housekeeper Birdie Lee Coggins (Lillian Randolph). Although in the first season, under writer Levinson, Birdie was often portrayed as saliently less than bright, she slowly developed as the real brains and caretaker of the household under writers John Whedon, Sam Moore and Andy White. In many of the later episodes Gildersleeve has to acknowledge Birdie’s commonsense approach to some of his predicaments. By the early 1950s, Birdie was heavily depended on by the rest of the family in fulfilling many of the functions of the household matriarch, whether it be giving sound advice to an adolescent Leroy or tending Marjorie’s children. By the late 1940s, Marjorie slowly matures to a young woman of marrying age. During the 9th season (September 1949-June 1950) Marjorie meets and marries (May 10) Walter “Bronco” Thompson (Richard Crenna), star football player at the local college. The event was popular enough that Look devoted five pages in its May 23, 1950 issue to the wedding. After living in the same household for a few years with their twin babies Ronnie and Linda, the newlyweds move next door to keep the expanding Gildersleeve clan close together. Leroy, aged 10–11 during most of the 1940s, is the all-American boy who grudgingly practices his piano lessons, gets bad report cards, fights with his friends and cannot remember to not slam the door. Although he is loyal to his Uncle …
At the Capitol: School Safety, Prisons, ALFs
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Florida is spending $ 64 million this year on a “Safe Schools” program, but school boards want $ 100 million more, according to The Florida Current. The Senate Education Committee Tuesday invited three county school superintendents to … A controversial …
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Teen gunman Benjamin Bishop: Rage drove him to kill, gun laws were no obstacle
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Bishop was taken into custody through the Baker Act, a Florida law that allows for forcible examination of the mentally ill. He was released and, … Over three months in 2011, Bishop was detained four times under the Baker Act. He went off to drug …
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If Guns Don't Kill People, Why Does Florida Cheat Mental Health?
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Florida also wants you to know that after reconsidering its controversial Stand Your Ground law, the Wild West gun code at the center of the Trayvon Martin killing, it's decided not to reconsider it. Put that in your Glock and fire it. …. And the …
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