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...almost like old times-distressingly so. There in the Nielsen top ten last week were the old familiar faces, from NBC's Bonanza, in first place for the second year, to Gomer Pyle, The Farmer's Daughter, Lucy, Dick Van Dyke, The Beverly Hillbillies, Walt Disney and Bewitched. There was Red Skelton, now in his 12th year and ranked No. 6. And back into the lead surged CBS,* which is still indebted to its fired ex-president, James Aubrey, for almost all of its current programming, including six out of the top nine...
...good fight to the finish with the moribund Mainland: lateral against vertical, Harley 74 against Country Squire station wagon, hipster against mark, today against yesteryear, WAR. And in any such conflict, who but the Herald Tribune's own T. K. Wolfe Jr., would emerge as the new Ernie Pyle...
...acres of Hollywood real estate, he is king. Nine sound stages sound the alert when his footfall is heard; five companies now shooting television series await his Brooklynese benediction. He controls three of TV's top shows: Corner Pyle, Andy Griffith and Dick Van Dyke. I Spy, a rising comedy-adventure show, he owns outright. Yesterday, however, it was a different story. Producer Sheldon Leonard's climb has largely been from rags to rags; the riches are a very new addition...
From the National Football League, there's Mike Pyle, the Yalie who plays center for the Chicago Bears, Gary Wood, the stubby quarterback who went from Cornell to the New York Giants, and Yale's Chuck Mercein, who kicks field goals and fills in at fullback for the Giants...
Such behind-the-scenes service is often necessary, suggests Episcopal Chaplain John Pyle of the University of Chicago, because "there is a general feeling of anti-institutionalism" among students. But beneath student skepticism, many campus clerics see evidence of a genuine but unformed faith. Although they encounter some convinced atheists, more often the doubter is like the University of Houston graduate student who told a Baptist chaplain that she "had hated God since she was six" because a minister told her that "God had taken" her father when he died. Now, says the Rev. DeWitt Baldwin of the University...