Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In cards to display punchlines. On "Letters to Laugh-In", a short-lived spin-off daytime show hosted by Gary Owens, cast members read jokes sent in by viewers, which were scored by applause meter. The eventual winning joke was read by actress Jill St. John: "What do you get when you cross an elephant with a jar of peanut butter? A 500 pound sandwich that sticks to the roof of your mouth!" A cross-promotional episode of "I Dream of Jeannie" ("The Biggest Star in Hollywood", February 1969) features Judy Carne, Arte Johnson, Gary Owens, and producer George Schlatter playing themselves in a story
Roy Rowan about a mother’s fight to win back her son kidnapped as a baby by a German SS soldier during World War II was made into a movie called "Divided Heart” by the British film mogul, J. Arthur Rank. In 1952, after proposing by trans-Atlantic telephone, Rowan married Helen Rounds, a Life picture researcher from Birmingham, Michigan. The couple went on to have four sons. As Life's Chicago bureau chief from 1955, Rowan covered the Little Rock school crisis and in 1957 he was the first writer to reach the "" in Plainfield, Wisconsin, which inspired Alfred Hitchcock's movie, 'Psycho'. In