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Word: nielsens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nothing Sacred. That night Ike and party flew to Denver; next morning they motored across the continental divide for two days of trout fishing at a ranch owned by two Denver friends. Mortgage Banker Aksel Nielsen and Manufacturer Carl Norgren, near little (pop. 300) Fraser, Colo. Most of the town was waiting in Fraser's dusty main street to see Ike and Hoover. As Ike stepped out of his car, a man grabbed his hand and said: "Hi, Ike. I'm Curtis Brewer from Abilene." "Well, for goodness sake," said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: 5,294-Mile Work Week | 9/13/1954 | See Source »

Vance and Sam Spade are only shadowy figures in the public mind. Dragnet's most recent Nielsen rating (60.6) indicates that 16,332,000 of the more than 27 million U.S. television set owners are tuned to NBC every Thursday night by the time Webb speaks his terse introductory line: "My name's Friday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Jack, Be Nimble! | 3/15/1954 | See Source »

There is some indication that the nation's housewives have had just about enough TV daytime charm. 'Only CBS's Godfrey and NBC's Tommy Bartlett are in the current Nielsen list of Top Ten daytime shows; Art Linkletter and Garry Moore have not quite made it, and all the others are far down in the ratings. But TVmen are persistent. ABC announced that Veteran Charm Boy Don McNeill will bring his Breakfast Club back to TV for a second try at providing "clean, tainment sparkling, every weekday heart-warming fun morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Charm Boys | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

...most popular TV shows and their ratings, according to the latest Nielsen report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Top Ten | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

...outsiders who might break up their cozy family of two. Margie has made the jump from television (sponsor: Scott Paper Co.) to radio, where Philip Morris has it on both CBS and Mutual. It is thus the first radio and TV show to span three networks. On radio the Nielsen ratings place it third, behind Lux Theater and People Are Funny, and well ahead of both Jack Benny and Dragnet. Most of the credit for the show's surprising success goes to ex-Sunday School Teacher Storm, a stable, sunshiny girl who says: "I guess I've always...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: A Kind of Pollyanna | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

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