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Gene was "top chef," when the Rayburns were first married, but now Helen is the queen of the kitchen.
He's a real handyman around the house, built many units himself, turns out ornate rungs on his lathe.
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I say is calling?" It was Gene's thirteen-year-old daughter, Lynn. She was kidding, but many a truth is spoken in jest. More often than not, Gene calls his one-room apartment — just east of Central Park in the seventies — "home." The only personal items in the room are his clothes, a small radio and record-player, TV and a cigarette holder. Tacked to the walls are a half-dozen unframed, giant-sized travel posters. The furniture is used-modern. "It came with the apartment," Gene explains. "I don't like modern. I don't mean anything personal by this, but I think modern rurniture is sterile."
Main reason for the one-room apartment is that almost nightly schedule of shows on which Gene is "second banana" to "top banana" Steve Allen. The two are on the air together until one A.M. at least three nights a week. So, if Mr. Rayburn has a call at ten in the morning, the only way he gets a bit of rest is by staying in town. "You're beat, yet you're all wound up," he says. "You even have to work at unwinding. I know Steve doesn't get to sleep until four. I've got it down to about forty-five minutes. Sometimes I can get to sleep by two."
He goes back to a neat apartment, for Gene does his own housekeeping. His wife testifies, "Gene is an excellent housewife." He puts about an hour one evening a week into putting things right and clean. In the mornings, he stirs some cereal into milk and calls it breakfast. If he wants something more elaborate, he phones out to (Continued on page 88)
Gene Rayburn is seen on The Steve Allen Show, on NBC-TV, Sun., from 8 to 9 P.M., as sponsored by Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corp. (Viceroy Cigarettes), Andrew Jergens Co. (Jergens Lotion, Woodbury Soap), and others. He is also seen Wed., Thurs., Fri., on Tonight, over NBC-TV, 11:30 P.M. to 1 A.M. (All times EDT)
Helen is used to working side by side with Gene, finds that helping with his fan mail is truly fun.