Word: arthur
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...Arthur Godfrey...
...sang like a frog and played his ever present ukulele like a hunt-and-peck typist. He talked with his mouth full and tossed aside his script to ad-lib whatever came into his head. He had no talent but folksiness. For Arthur Godfrey, that was enough. At his peak in the 1950s he was, after President Eisenhower, perhaps the best-loved man in America. Godfrey's daily radio show and two weekly TV shows on CBS brought the network as much as 12% of its total revenue. Said CBS Chairman William Paley of Godfrey in his heyday...
Enemies-and Godfrey made many, especially among former employees-often labeled the Old Redhead's country-boy manner a fraud: he was born in Manhattan to a mother who was a frustrated concert singer and an improvident father who was a self-styled British aristocrat. Young Arthur dropped out of high school to support the family at odd jobs. He started in radio almost by accident, as a banjo player sponsored by a birdseed company on a station in Baltimore...
Children of drug addicts and bisexuals seem to be another vulnerable group. Among the unclassifiable 6% are several children born to addicted parents. Pediatric Immunologist Arthur Ammann of the University of California at San Francisco has presented the most compelling evidence of parental transmission of AIDS: a 30-year-old, drug-addicted prostitute whose four daughters all developed symptoms of the immune disorder. The fact that each baby had a different father and that the mother has no sign of a hereditary disease suggests that the cause was not genetic. "Our only option is an infectious cause," says Ammann...
...March 8 hearing before the city's licensing commission. Yellow Cab Company Owner Arthur Goldberg proposed that the commission permit owners to lease cabs, saying it would benefit drivers by specifying a limit to how much they would have to split with the owners...