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Though Arthur Godfrey believes, as did Mark Twain, that half the art of American humor consists in keeping your face straight, he scores heavily with the precision mugging of his Huck Finn features. He is a master of the mildly distasteful grimace, the quizzical brow, the shrug of simulated incomprehension. His personality has elements of other U.S. entertainers who have won a peculiarly affectionate place in American hearts. Like Will Rogers, Godfrey is the embodiment of the homespun debunker; but where Will fired salvos at Congress, Godfrey snipes at the lesser game of admen and pressagents. Like Bing Crosby...
...Cadillac pulls up outside a plush nightclub known as the Oasis. The Oasis' bartender keeps a special highball glass ready with "Baby" etched on the side. There, not long ago, Baby used a whisky bottle to etch some less formal inscriptions on an uncooperative trombonist's brow...
...Furrowed Brow...
...face it. Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates are not turning out Great Literature. The undergraduate anywhere whose literary creations can stand successfully in the publishing market, or find an audience in the public of high or low brow, is a rare and fortunate fellow indeed...
...time the orchestra got to the last full-band chords, Composer Gillis, a man who knows how to use every bleep, boom and buzz in an orchestra with a light touch, had given them just about everything in music but Toscanini. Said grinning Conductor Dorati, mopping his perspiring brow: "Great...