Word: nielsens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Santee, the Kansas cyclone, this was the one to win. Only a week before, in the Wanamaker Mile, he had lost a last-lap wrestling match to Private Freddie Dwyer and while the two were tangling, Denmark's Gunnar Nielsen ran off with Santee's world indoor mile record (TIME, Feb. 14). Thoroughly chastened and uncommonly quiet, Wesley went home to Lawrence, Kans. to train. When the starter's gun cracked for the Baxter Mile last week at the New York Athletic Club games, Wes wanted to be ready to unwind with the race of his life...
...least one faculty representative from Duke. Economist Calvin Hoover was one of Averell Harriman's top advisers on the Marshall Plan. Eber Malcolm Carroll, an authority on German history, served in the OSS during the war, directed the editing of captured German papers. Physicists Walter Nielsen and Lothar Nordheim played major roles at Oak Ridge. Neurosurgeon Barnes Woodhall is a ranking consultant to the Veterans Administration. Congregations throughout the East have heard the sermons of Preacher James T. Cleland, and the State Department has more than once called on the services of Political Scientist Robert R. Wilson, specialist...
...Nielsen ratings of the top ten radio shows seemed to indicate that not much has changed in radio: 1) Jack Benny Show (CBA), 2) Amos 'n' Andy (CBS), 3) People Are Funny (NBC), 4) Our Miss Brooks (CBS) 5) Lux Radio Theater (NBC), 6) My Little Margie (CBS), 7) Dragnet (NBC), 8) FBI in Peace and War (CBS), 9) Bergen and McCarthy (CBS), 10) Groucho Marx...
...spot in the TV ratings was proving easier to get than to hold onto. This week, for the first time, the lead position was captured by one of NBC's high-priced spectaculars: Max Liebman's Babes in Toyland, which went to the top with a Nielsen rating of 50.5. CBS's I Love 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...
DENVER BUILDING PROJECT by two of President Eisenhower's fishing companions will be one of the biggest in Colorado's history. With other businessmen Bankers Bal F. Swan and Aksel Nielsen, joint owners of the ranch where Ike trout fishes, have formed the Turnpike Land Co. to build a $100 million model community of 6,000 brick houses, shopping centers, parks, schools and churches outside of town, along the turnpike running between Denver and Boulder...