Word: godfrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ballard and Pudding President Godfrey Truslow '58 are slated to discuss the proposed change with Watson, probably later in the week and then will take the motion before the club's executive board, composed of both undergraduates and graduates...
Married. Marion Marlowe, 26, TV songstress fired last month from Arthur Godfrey's Wednesday TV show; and Larry Puck, 55, TV producer fired from the same show last December; both for the second time; in Overland...
...word spread quickly through CBS's Manhattan headquarters: "Godfrey's done it again." Without warning, TV's Arthur Godfrey had called in three writers and six members of his cast, bluntly told them that they were fired "in the interests of good showmanship." Said Godfrey to the press: "These people have all achieved stardom, and I am proud of them." For all Godfrey's abruptness, some reorganization was overdue. Arthur Godfrey and his Friends (Wed. 8 p.m., CBS), showing the same faces week after week, has been losing listeners to ABC's Disneyland. Explained Godfrey...
...nightclub floor stands a lithe, confident little man with a pugnaciously protruding lower lip, a broken nose and a patch over his left eye. But blasting out of the loudspeakers at the delighted audiences come the vocal inflections of Frank Sinatra (applause), Billy Eckstine (applause), Tony Bennett (laughter), Arthur Godfrey (laughter), Bing Crosby (cheers). After the impersonations, the entertainer sings some straight songs-in a voice not so good as some of those he mimicked, but clear and sure. Then he may play the drums with the abandon of a voodoo priest...
...demands on all TV thrushes are not quite so strenuous. Arthur Godfrey's hired hands have had to learn to ice-skate and swim, but, mostly, his singers need only look at the floor with humility while Arthur tells viewers what good kids they are. On the George Gobel Show, Peggy King's main nonsinging chore is to rub noses with Funnyman Gobel before he wanders offscreen. Denise Lor's task is more elusive: Garry Moore hired her because he thought she was "somebody the Middle West would like." The Midwest likes...