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...station show was the "holy mess" Billy's team imagined, nobody else seemed to notice. Variety tagged it a "surefire click," hailed Billy as "tremendous box office." Trendex awarded him an 8.1 rating, highest ever registered by ABC for the crucial time slot opposite TV Titans Jackie Gleason and Perry Como. (Said Perry: "Very fine rating." Said Jackie: "No comment.") That meant (if the rating systems can be relied on to calculate audiences) an audience of about 7,000,000, biggest single congregation in the history of U.S. evangelism and enough to fill the Garden every...
...summer, CBS contemplates only one new show: a live comedy-variety spot for young (29) Dick Van Dyke, an Orson Beanish kind of comic who earlier served on To Tell the Truth. Humorist Sam Levenson's quiz game Two for the Money will share Saturday's Jackie Gleason hour with filmed editions of old Jimmy Durante shows. The newest hillbilly darling, Jimmy Dean, will continue his weekday morning show and also move into CBS's "new talent spot" on Saturday night at 10:30-a bonus for having clobbered NBC's Today in the ratings...
...breed of blander favorites-the Perry Comos, the Lawrence Welks. the Tennessee Ernie Fords (see below). Almost all the comics have surrendered or compromised in the face of TV's terrible challenge of keeping both material and audiences from getting tired. Next fall CBS's Jackie Gleason will take a sabbatical, and NBC's George Gobel will try to salvage his popularity by cutting down his exposure. Such perennials as Bob Hope, Jack Benny and Burns & Allen have taken refuge in limited appearances or filmed situation comedies that produce greater mileage for less material. Next season...
Andrew M. Gleason, associate professor of Mathematics, annually choose three members for the team, which has placed among the top three teams in the country each year since...
...Marion Gleason, 66, raised her family in Rochester, N.Y., and in 1945 helped set up a state safety-planning program. From this she slid into a post as research assistant in pharmacology at the University of Rochester, and did what came naturally-concentrated on the effects of chemicals widely used in cosmetics, household disinfectants and cleaning fluids, dyes, paints, insecticides and shoe polishes...