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Foster Really Knows How To Handle A Tug for their 400-acre ranch up in the Sierra Palloma mountains, a place which they have had to put on a pay¬ ing basis. “It’s a working ranch,” Fos¬ ter grumbles amiably, “but the Gov¬ ernment kept insisting it was just an actor’s hobby, and you should see the tax bill I used to get. There I was, tearing that scraggly land apart prac¬ tically with my bare hands trying to find water for irrigation, and they called it a hobby. Some hobby!” A handsome hulk of a man in his fifties, Foster revels in his role as the syndicated Waterfront film series, first telecast in February, 1954. It is now seen in more than 90 cities, with a total audience of up to 22,000,- 000 people. The extent of its impact is indicate by the greeting given Foster by his mother when he visited her in Philadelphia last fall for the first time in five years. “She looked at me there in the doorway for a second,” he relates, “then threw her arms around me and cried, ‘Cap’n John!’ ” Foster’s biggest thrill was in prov¬ ing that a Hollywood actor knows his way around the water. When he ^ visited Cleveland last year for a press shindig, his sponsors in that area threw a party aboard a scow—which was anchored out in the middle of the lake and could be reached only by tug. With a bevy of skeptical news¬ men looking on, Foster swung aboard the tug, took over the helm, rang all j the right bells and finally eased her ^ alongside the scow like an old salt. “Been around boats most of my life,” he says (he was born in Ocean City, NJ.) “and owned one for a ! number of years. Getting the hang of ' the Cheryl Ann was no trick at all.” The Cheryl Ann, which practically co-stars with Foster, is rented from a Wilmington, Cal., tug company. A rep¬ lica, built in sections and mounted on wheels, is used for the interior shots on Stage One. More and more, however, producer Ben Fox is doing j Out of uniform; Foster and Lois Moran, who plays his wife, look over a paper before getting ready to film a story. 6