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...vacationing Nelson family from Kansas City, it was a festive family dinner down on the farm-Grandpa Aaron Gruwell's farm at Idaho Falls, Idaho. Kenneth Nelson, 45, a mechanic, and his wife Naomi had driven west with their five children, aged 4 to 15. Grandma Gruwell always set a good table. This time she served home-canned beets, but explained at the dining table: "I didn't can these myself. I got them from a friend, and they taste to me like they need a bit more vinegar...
...Johns Hopkins File 7 (ABC, 12:30-1 p.m.). Military Historian Walter Millis riffles through old pictures and eyewitness drawings in an effort to help a new generation understand what Grandpa meant when he shouted: "Remember the Maine and to Hell with Spain." The Ed Sullivan Show...
Your article on Nelson Rockefeller [Oct. 6] prompts this letter. When I was a little girl in Cleveland, my mother was calling on Grandpa John D.'s neighbor and, over the back fence, told John D. that my birthday was the same day as his, July 8. With no hesitation, he reached in his pocket and handed my mother the enclosed dime. I now want to return it to Grandson Nelson for his campaign fund, and wish him luck and success...
...Young's Emmy-winning show, Father Knows Best, demonstrated that father really does. So it was sure as apple pie that other members of the family would gather at the festive board. Already lined up this season: one homey fracas in which mom knows best, another in which grandpa takes over the Socratic chores. ¶Donna Reed (ABC, Wed., 9-9:30 p.m.), mother of two, wife of a doctor, is an inoffensive archetype of the mythical figure whose chuckleheadedness is just a cheery wrapper around an infallible intuitive wisdom. In time for the final embrace, she usually squashes...
...heartening and timely. Ellen Goldsmith of suburban Glencoe, Ill. was the $100 grand prize winner. She is 14 and a high school freshman. Ellen is no egghead: she is active in scouting, athletic, a topflight camper, loves to jitterbug and is studying piano. I am a proud grandpa...