Word: martha
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lucy grabbed second with 50.1. while Jackie Gleason (CBS), the former leader, dropped to third with 48.1. The rest of the Top Ten: 4) Toast of the Town (CBS). 45.5; 5) Dragnet (NBC). 44.1; 6) Disneyland (ABC). 42.4; 7) Milton Berle (NBC). 42.0; 8) Groucho Marx (NBC), 41.1; 9) Martha Raye (NBC). 40.4; 10) Producers' Showcase: Dateline...
...little while ago, an elderly (90) Ohio lady named Mrs. Martha Goodman, who lives in the village of Union City (pop. 1,500), dropped a note to ailing Pope Pius XII telling him two old-fashioned home cures for hiccups. Mrs. Goodman's first remedy: breathing into a sealed paper bag through a hole cut to fit the hiccupper's mouth-a prescription she once got from a doctor. She also mentioned her own time-tested therapy, "even better than that of the doctor": repeatedly emptying the lungs by exhaling in long drawn-out breaths. Last week, good...
...most popular TV shows, according to last week's Nielsen report: 1) Jackie Gleason (CBS), 2) Toast of the Town (CBS), 3) I Love Lucy (CBS), 4) Milton Berle (NBC), 5) Dragnet (NBC), 6) Disneyland (ABC), 7) Martha Raye (NBC), 8) Max Liebman Presents (NBC), 9) Groucho Marx (NBC), 10) Jack Benny...
Producer's Showcase (Mon. 8 p.m., NBC). With Marian Anderson, Sid Caesar, Bob Hope, Carl Sandburg, Martha Raye, Perry Como...
...Courtship. In Roanoke, Va., Charles Lee Dickerson, 71, made up his mind at last, married Mrs. Martha Shelton, 70, whose father had frightened him into breaking off their engagement 52 years...