TV'S FIRST MOM DIES

She was always perfectly coiffed, meticulously middle-class and, in an Eisenhower America, the ideal Mom. Harriet Nelson, the real-life mother of two boys in TV's pioneering "Ozzie and Harriet" sitcom in the 1950s, died of heart failure at the age of 85. Along with her sons, and her real-life hubby Ozzie, everyone's ideal milkman, the Nelsons became archetypes of a now mostly departed American domestic sensibility. One son, teen idol and pop star Rick Nelson, died in a plane crash in 1985.