Word: pyle
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...November 1940, the last American plane that got out of France, just one step ahead of the invading Nazis, carried an innocuous bundle addressed to Robert Pyle of West Grove, Pa. The bundle contained a handful of stems from a rosebush. All through the war, French Rose-Grower Francis Meilland worried about the prize he had sent to his fellow horticulturist. Not until 1945 did he learn that it had arrived safely, Pyle had nurtured it, patented its blossoms and produced hundreds of bushes from Meilland's hardy stock. Then he christened the pale gold roses "Peace," and distributed...
Gatto will be the only non-Eli speaking at the dinner. Joining him on the podium will be Charles O'Hearn, representing the undefeated Yale team of 1923: Danny McGill, halfback on the 1956 club, and Mike Pyle, captain of the undefeated 1960 squad who is now captain of the Chicago Bears...
...their room-well-you can't fool them any more." Or at least, it might be added, not in the same way. Director Richard Lester, who got his start on TV, believes that television's abrupt leap from news about Viet Nam to Corner Pyle to toothpaste ads expands people's vision. "TV is best at those sudden shifts of reality. TV, not Last Year at Marienbad, made the audience notice them for the first time...
...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...
Mama knew best. By talking natural-like, Nabors, as the star of CBS's Gomer Pyle - U.S.M.C., has grown successively more popular in four seasons, and last week his show finished third, just behind The Lucy Show and Bonanza in the ratings sweepstake. He croons, too, in a big, booming baritone that, on his five bestselling albums, sounds vaguely like, well, a fellow hollering down a drainpipe. On the state-fair cir cuit, he harvests $25,000 for an appearance in which he tells a few jokes ("The tornado was so bad a hen laid the same egg twice...