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Show By LYN CONNELLY THE business of working in ABC-TV'i "Leave It to Beaver" Beav-er" is one of those things that separate the men from the boys . . . The men are the boys who, toward the end of each day, can be found collapsed on dressing room cots between scenes, hopefully hope-fully munching pep pills . . . The boys, such as 16-year-old Tony Dow, can very likely be found leaping vigorously about on the basketball court set up in one corner of the sound stage that houses the "Beaver" sets. Despite his daily eight-hour grind before the camera and in the schoolroom, which is also located lo-cated on stage, Tony always has plenty of vim left over for basketball, basket-ball, vaulting the furniture and other energetic forms of skylarking skylark-ing . . . Not surprisingly, Tony's chief interest, besides acting, is sports, which account for his lean, wiry frame and fine conditioning ... His specialty is aquatics . . He has been swimming since age three and is an ardent body surfer, surf-er, surfboarder, skin diver and water skier. ' He is a championship-caliber springboard diver and, on terra firma, also eicels at tumbling and trampolining ... More in the show biz line, be plays piano and accordion and can dance wilh considerable authority. . . Tony's favorite weekend and vacation spot is Catalina Island, off th Southern California coast, where he's buying a cottage under the supervision of hi parents . . . His 16-foot power boat there sees frequent fre-quent water-skiing duty. Tony, a native Hollywoodian, was "discovered" when he was 12 by actor-neighbor, Bill Bryant, who was influential in having him cast in two pilot TV films ... But it wasn't until he was chosen by Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher for his role of Jerry Mathers' (Beaver) (Beav-er) elder brother that he began acting regularly |