Word: godfrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...matter which way he turned last week, Arthur Godfrey appeared to be in trouble. The Civil Aeronautics Board had given him ten days to answer the charges of careless flying made against him by the CAA. If Godfrey admitted thai: he had deliberately buzzed the control tower at New Jersey's Teterboro Airport, he was almost certain to be disciplined (by reprimand, fine, suspension or revocation of his private pilot's license). If. on the other hand, he could come up with no better excuse than the one he had used in his broadcast-that his twin-engined...
...another front, the storm clouds over Godfrey were dissolved in a flood of financial sunshine. CBS reported that the programs relinquished by Godfrey's long time sponsor Chesterfield cigarettes had all been bought up by four other advertisers: Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. (Scotch tape), Toni Co., Pillsbury Mills and Frigidaire...
Glass, director of aviation for the Port of New York Authority, which operates Teterboro Airport. Citing airport witnesses, Glass told the Civil Aeronautics Administration that on take-off Godfrey gained an altitude of 20 to 30 feet, then made an abrupt left turn, narrowly missed three planes that were warming up on the taxiway, skimmed over a hangar, and thundered directly toward an 87-ft. control tower, whose occupants fled for their lives...
Demanding a full investigation, Director Glass charged that "it would appear that the aircraft was operated carelessly and recklessly." Into the Fray. Over the air, Godfrey kept explaining all week to his audiences that he was forced into the left turn by a gusty crosswind. He complained that he had been refused the use of another runway heading into the wind. He alternately joked about the incident ("Who is this fellow Glass? Maybe he wants to run for governor") and darkly warned that the airport was being mismanaged. In Manhattan, columnists leaped into the. fray...
...York Post's Earl Wilson concluded that this just wasn't Godfrey's year, urged that he "take a long rest." Ed Sullivan of the News reported that the Teterboro control tower had immediately called Godfrey to ask if his plane was out of control, and Godfrey had flippantly replied: "No, that's just a normal Teterboro take-off." The Mirror's Nick Kenny came valiantly, if ineptly, to Godfrey's defense. Kenny vaguely hinted that there was still another conspiracy, this time by "the proCommunists who do too much of the hiring & firing...