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...Godfrey seemed to capture the public's imagination. When he fired his prize discovery, Singer Julius LaRosa, on live network TV in 1953, purportedly for "lack of humility," the incident made front pages across the country. So did another burst of temper the next year, when Godfrey, an avid pilot, grew angry with the flight instructions he had been given for his DC-3 and buzzed an airport control tower in Teterboro...
Although he will continue his squash career, Cutler also plans to do some travelling with his wife next year. An avid bird watcher, past director of the Audobon Society and accomplished photographer, he hopes to combine the two interests during his travels and possibly produce a book. Watching birds is nothing new for Cutler. The former director of the Audobon Society spent 25 years catching birds for the government...
Colonel Blake's sad departure, Trapper's hasty exit and Radar's return to Otumwa, Iowa prompted mourning and drunken reflection from avid viewers nationwide. M*A*S*H's final episode, not surprisingly, became a national phenomenon, and we join the rest of the nation and the host of last-episode, not surprisingly, became a national phenomenon, and we join the rest of the nation and the host of last-episode partiers in saying farewell...
...avid jogger, Danchy might have taken the opportunity to get in a few miles at Fresh Pond, but a broken wrist suffered from a fall on ice last year has left him "a little bit paranoid...
...attention to the TV set while it was on. Far from creating a generation of TV zombies, the tube showed almost no ability to deflect Americans from other favorite pursuits around the house. Frequent adult watchers seem to be as home-centered as those who watch very little TV. Avid TV viewers read to their children and engage in family chats, possibly because the prime evening viewing hours coincide with time usually set aside for family activities. Concludes the report: "Television seems not to erode basic family and community concerns as much as it coexists with them...