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Gene Rayburn dictates some "deathless" prose to his lovely wife, Helen.
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Gene and daughter Lynn get a big kick out of family pooch — who mugs it up for the camera.
Over at WNBC studios in New York's Rockefeller Plaza, there's an office — way, way far d own the hall, hidden by two sets of heavy doors. This particular office is divided into two cubicles, and the rear cubicle belongs to a tall, crew-cutted, dimpled, collegiateappearing young man, who calls himself Gene Rayburn. Gene Rayburn is his real name so it seems quite logical that he should call himself Gene Rayburn. This young man who used to break people up on a WNEW early-morning stanza with a partner. Dee Finch, is now breaking people up in a solo number early in the morning for WNBC. When asked why he works early in the morning, and why he doesn't find himself a job with better hours, his reply comes straight from his magnificent heart, "I make more money this way."
A Chicago lad who came to New York to make fame and fortune — especially the latter — Gene attended college for a short time. He left school in his second year. When asked why, he harks back to a favorite word of his — money. This time he didn't have enough of it to stay in school. Once in New York, Gene realized a life ambition and became a page boy at Radio City. He knew from books he had read as a boy, that page boys eventually become vice-presidents. Well, he didn't become a vice-president, but he did meet his very lovely wife Helen there. (She portrays Polly Bradford on his program occasionally )
Romantic Rayburn describes the meeting sentimentally. "Helen had tickets to a Toscanini concert, and I thought she was for me because she was a music lover — and besides she had a beautiful figure." So the two music lovers got married, and now they have a little music lover — ten-year-old Lynn. The Rayburns recently bought a new home in Mamaroneck, where Gene spends leisure hours pretending he's a carpenter. The new home is quite a big place — so it looks as if being a page is the best way to start making "money." Of course being Gene Rayburn helps, too, and that's the truth.
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