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Word: gomer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NABORS HOUR (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). Nabors has brought along Frank Sutton from his Gomer Pyle days to be a variety-show regular with Ronnie Schell and Karen Morrow. Andy Griffith and Julie Budd are guests. Premiere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sep. 26, 1969 | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

...past topped ABC's That's Life in the ratings), promises to make the TV newsmagazines network fixtures. If the trend continues, TV news may finally find its place as a marketable commodity, turning out jokes as well as Laugh-In, making satiric thrusts as well as Gomer Pyle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newscasting: The Merry Magazines | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

Died. Viscount Kemsley, 84, one of Britain's most powerful press lords until he sold most of his empire to Lord Thomson for $14 million in 1959; following an asthma attack; in Monte Carlo. Born James Gomer Berry, son of a Welsh town alderman, he and his brother William started their careers at the turn of the century with a sixpence monthly, Advertising World; with their profits they built a publishing empire that grew to 70-odd magazines and 31 newspapers, including London's Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 16, 1968 | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

...Nielsen-ratings race so far this season, the perennial leader, CBS, is clobbering the competition again. Among TV's top 20 programs, CBS claims 14, including Andy Griffith (No. 1), Lucy (2), Gomer Pyle (5), Red Skelton (6) and Ed Sullivan (10). Moreover, CBS claims an average prime-time audience that is 11% bigger than NBC's and a record 25% ahead of third-place ABC. Yet standing as No. 1 can be an honor without profit in TV country. CBS's earnings fell 43% in the third quarter compared with the same period last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ratings: Honor Without Profit | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

...warm puppy," says Linke, who fully expects him to soon outearn his other top client, Andy Griffith. "I figure another year of Jim doing Gomer, then on to Broadway. Then back to Hollywood for the movies. I've got another Al Jolson on my hands. You see how in his act I got him dropping down on one knee like Jolie? He hasn't got that voice throb yet, but it's coming, it's coming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedies: Success Is a Warm Puppy | 11/10/1967 | See Source »

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