Word: nielsens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intellectual impoverishment." Though Cummings insists that Fury is not out to "win any wars," many of its fans' fathers may be reminded of the basic training films they endured during their service years. Yet youngsters have kept Fury's ratings remarkably high for 2½ years (latest Nielsen...
...only competitor left to satisfy the record-hungry crowd. And this time he tried. He settled into his snug, easygoing stride and watched Maryland's Burr Grim sprint ahead of him into a swift first quarter. Clearly, Grim was going to try to pace him past Gunnar Nielsen's indoor mark of 4:03.6. And Ron was willing. But he thought Grim was starting just a little too fast and he hung back, well off the pace. When Grim faded, Ron got up on his toes and ran for the record. But he was running all alone. There...
...which this season has lost some of its audience edge over an aggressive NBC and a fast-growing ABC. Another blow to CBS has been the slippage of The $64,000 Question, which, despite such frantic publicity stunts as an appearance by Jack Benny, dropped out of the Nielsen top ten for the first time in 2½ years. Strike It Rich is dropping right out of the CBS schedule next week. But given such variations as The Price Is Right or Twenty-One, the quiz show still seems good for many seasons to come...
High-Riding & Downbeat. To the surprise of the critics and even the network brass, the people mainly want to watch westerns. And so horse operas fill half of Nielsen's latest list of the nation's ten top-rated shows. No. 1: CBS's Gunsmoke, starring big (6 ft. 6 in., 220 Ibs.) James Arness. Every one of the 21 westerns that opened the season is still going strong, another will probably be trotted out this winter, and at least three others are champing to cut loose next fall...
...Ears. From his pinnacle atop the nation's TV antennas, Murrow commands a huge circulation. The monthly See It Now, which starts its new season next week (Sun. 5 p.m.. E.S.T.), draws viewers in a Nielsen-estimated 3,850,000 homes; his Person to Person (Fri. 10:30 p.m.. E.S.T.), now in its fifth year, flickers weekly into more than 8,300,000 homes, and his ten-year-old radio broadcast, its audience shrunken by TV competition, still enables Murrow to get more than 1,000,000 Americans by the ears every weekday evening...