Word: nielsens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since the departure of Wally Cox, George Gobel is the shyest comic left on television. Gobel ended last season No. 1 in the Nielsen ratings, but his opening program did not have the look of a winner as Gobel traded arch repartee with a fluttery actress pretending to be his mother, endlessly rubbed noses with plump Singer Peggy King, and finally salvaged some shreds of comedy from an interview with Actor Fred MacMurray. Gobel this year may have a rival in CBS's Johnny Carson, another minor-keyed comic who can extract a remarkable amount of amusement from such...
From Jesters to Letters. On Friday morning the President was out of bed at 5 o'clock, and began clattering around the kitchen at Aksel Nielsen's new guest house, getting breakfast. At 6 a.m., Host Nielsen rang an old railroad bell, summoning the other guests at the ranch-Major General Howard Snyder, the presidential physician, Acting Press Secretary Murray Snyder, and George Allen, jester to Presidents-to Ike's breakfast. As usual, the bill of fare was robust: eggs fried sunny side up, rashers of beef bacon, sausages, and steaming mugs of coffee. At the breakfast...
...Byers Peak Ranch (altitude: 8,600 ft.), Ike found that some changes had been made since his last visit. Near the rustic cabin where the President had roughed it in previous years, Host Nielsen had built a comfortable new prefabricated rambler with an ultramodern electric kitchen calculated to delight an old K.P. like Ike. St. Louis Creek had been deepened in spots for better fishing, and freshly stocked with trout, and a new, one-acre pond near the house was leaping with 412 hungry rainbow trout which Nielsen had thoughtfully dumped in a week before at a cost...
Flapjacks & Hip Boots. Next morning the President cooked breakfast (flapjacks and link sausages), and Nielsen gave a casting lesson to David and Jack Tkach, twelve-year-old son of Major Walter Tkach, assistant White House physician, who accompanied Ike. The weather was drizzly, so the President set up his easel in the living room and was soon absorbed in painting the view of the mountains from a large picture window. Later in the morning he strolled to a nearby pasture to whack old golf balls at a target; by 11:30 he and Nielsen, in hip boots, were headed...
Under the careful coaching of Grandfather and "Mr. Nielsen," young David tried his inexpert hand at fly-casting, driving a golf ball, and riding one of the dappled horses in Nielsen's stable. One day the press came by to record David's progress. Said Ike proudly: "He wants to fish, he wants to play golf, he wants to ride. There are so many things he wants to do, and like all little boys, he doesn't know which one he wants." When a reporter commented on David's easy handling of a big horse...