Top Teenage Singer
Has Name Trouble
MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon. Monday, April 14, 1958 3
Hollywood ft? Top teen-1
age singer Molly Bee doesnt
have the simple name she
seems to have. Her mail is
addressed often to people
like Buckboard, Driftwood,
and Surfboard.
"My real name is Mollie
Jene Beachboard," the pretty,
pony-tailed 18-year-old said.
"I guess lots of fans know
that, and somewhere the
name gets twisted. Beachwood
is a common occurrence.
"And Molly Bee as a name
seems to cause confusion, too.
Some letters come in for
Molly Bs and Molly C's."
Petite Miss Bee, a window
on the mysterious teenage
wor'.d, said she faithfully an
swers all her mail and she
gets quite a chunk of it,
mostly from other teenagers
who want her picture and
want to ask her about Tom
my Sands.
"I went to work when I
was 10 years old," she said.
"I lost a few years when I
would have known how they
think. Now in their letters I
find their wonderful thoughts.
They have some wild, fascin
ating ideas.
"I also learn about their
favorites. They like Tommy
Sands yes, we have dated
and really dig Ricky Nel
son."
Miss Bee, a blue-eyed,
honey-haired charmer with
the bubbling vitality of a
happy, energetic teenager,
said lots of teenagers want
to know how to emulate her
career in TV, movies and now
in night clubs.
"I tell them to sing when
ever and wherever possible,'
she said. "Any public affair
like a local fraternal club or
something is fine. You de
velop poise or something
anyhow, you get to figure
that something's going to go
wrong with the lights or mu
sic, and you get to expect it. j
You find after a while that I
whatever it is, it won't throw
you." i
Most of her mail lately has
come in because of two mov
ies she has appeared in
"Summer Love" and "Going
Steady." Her proponents say
she has been on TV more than
anyone in the country except
for Arthur Godfrey.
She began on TV at the age
of 10, had her pigtails clipped
on the screen when 15 and is
still going strong at 18. Her
TV credits include Tennessee
Ernie Ford's show, Pinky
Lee's program and spots on
shows such as Ed Sullivan,
Spike Jones and Jackie Glea
son. Her current records are
"I'm Going Steady With a
Dream," and "Teenage Love."
The teenager appears un
spoiled by her success. She
still has to be in by 12:30 a.m.
and her widowed mother in
sists on meeting all her dates
before they take Molly out.
"This is no problem," she
said. "They like mother
lots of times they come just
to see her. We double date.
Mother's very popular, and
while she'll let me stay out
later than 12:30 a.m., I worry
about her sometimes.
"If mother's out, I just can't
go to sleep until I know she's
home."
Miss Bee, who doesn't be
lieve in going steady, lives
with her mother and two bro
thers in a three-bedroom-and-den
home in the Burbank
area. The family, came to
California from Oklahoma
via a Tucson, Ariz., ranch.
"I guess I have only one
real worry now," she said
pensively. "My name again.
I went from Beachboard to
Bee, and now my agent
thinks it should be changed
again. He thinks 'Bee' sounds
too young. Oh, dear."
Unique Club Set Up
To 'Love Neighbor'
By PAT GRAY
United Press Correspondent
Washington (IP) Leon Ack
erman, wealthy Washington
realtor, has founded a unique
new club with a simple motto:
"It is my intent never to
resent."
There are no dues, no initia
tion fees, and membership is
open to anyone who wants to
live up to the slogan.
Membership consists only of
a card signed by the member
and countersigned by Acker
man. He figures there are 25,
000 members now; he has
mailed out that many cards
since founding the club.
There is no "expulsion"
from the club. But members
automatically suspend them
selves "each time they resent
to the least degree." -Have
No Choice
Ackerman, who is firmly
convinced that people have no
choice in the H-bomb era ex
cept to "love their enemies,'
founded the club a year ago
appropriately on St. Valen
tine's Day.
His inspiration was the
widespread response to full-
page newspaper ads extolling
the virtue of loving one s
neighbor which he has placed
from time to time in news
papers from coast to coast.
Ackerman has three offices
in Washington, a big Florida
real estate development, and
a smaller one at Ocean Beach,
Md. The money spent on his
ads and on the anti-resentment
club, he said, comes from busi
ness porfits.
A member of Ackerman's
office staff said the realtor has
an "uncanny sense" for plac
ing his inspirational newspa
per ads. He places them at
random at different times in
areas where he feels they will
do the most good.
The staff member said peo
ple call and write constantly
to tell Ackerman they have
really benefitted from such
messages as "Love Thy Negh-
bor," and "Resentment Is the
Root of All Evil."
Many, he said, also have
complicated Ackerman on the
"Layman's Prayer" which ap
pears on the back of the mem
bership card for the Anti-Re
sentment club. It reads:
"Father, may we be ever
mindful that it is in loving our
fellow man that we truly love
thee."
Headliners Club Confers
Award On Defense Dept.
Atlantic City, N. J. (IP)
The National Headliners club
conferred 22 awards Saturday
for journalistic achievement in
1957.
One of the prizes went to
the Defense Department for
"the excellent job it did in
providing films of its missile
projects."
Vincent rr. Newton, manag
ing editor of the Tampa Trib
une and chairman of the free
dom of informaton committee
of Sigma Delta Chi, the pro
fessional journalistic frater
nity, will present the awards
and make the principal
speech. About 125 persons will
attend the session.
The awards were decided
upon by a panel of newsmen
in the newspaper categories,
the public scervice award
went to the Philadelpha In
quirer for its series "today's
world-page three." This was
a full page relating to curent
events.
Other award winners were
Burris Jenkins Jr., New York
Journal American, editorial
cartoons; Kenneth J. Barnard,
Narragansett (R.I.) Times, the
ater and TV columns; Dorothy
R. Powers, Spokane, (Wash.)
Spokesman - Review, feature
writing; William Bien, Fort
Lauderdale (Fla.) News, spe
cial feature columns on busi
ness and financial matters; the
Southern Illinoisan, Carbon
dale, 111., for its story on the
Illinois tornado; the staff of
the Jackson (Mich.) Citizen
Patriot for its feature, "Chirst
mas Day Page One;" Robert
Hewett, Minneapolis Star
Tribune, reports on life in
CommurLt Europe.
Picture awards went to Bill
Beall, Washington (D.C.) Daily
News, a Scripps-Howard pa
per, human interest; Pat Can
dido, New York Daily News,
spot news picture; Arthur
Rickerby, United Press, sports.
Harry Grayson, of NEA,
was honored for distinguished
sports writing and columning.
Donald Gonzales, United
Press, was named for his re
ports of "an unhealthy situa
tion" in the State Depart
ment's protocol section.
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