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Thirty minutes from Broadway — and Tonight and the Steve Allen Show — Gene shares a real "country-type" home and lawn with Lynn, Helen, and the family pets.
People love our Mr. Rayburn on Steve Allen's show— but his most devoted fans are his own family
By MARTIN COHEN
Those who know best prefer Rayburn ten to one. Gene is a gentleman, sans push-pull. He exists in the dazzling delirium of TV without pull, without being pushy. Gene comes in a kingsize package, measuring six-feet-one. He has brown hair, brown eyes and brown shoes. He's a pixilated package. With him, the unexpected is just what to expect. But he doesn't bite. "Married sixteen years," says satisfied customer Helen Rayburn, "and he hasn't scratched yet. I wouldn't use any other product."
He is a clown, but a gentle clown. And he works hard. During the whole of last winter he had only four days off. Currently, his regularly scheduled appearances with Steve Allen alone count up to four nights a week on the air — Wednesday, Thursday and Friday on Tonight, and the big variety show on Sunday. Although his home is in lower Westchester County, thirty minutes from Manhattan, his days are so hectic that he had to take an apartment to catch his sleep. This sometimes robs him of seeing his family during the week. Recently, he was stopped in the foyer of his own home by a pretty brownette. "Yes, sir," the girl said, "who shall
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Barbecue snack in his own back yard tastes better to Rayburn than those bachelor "breakfasts" in town.
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