Word: godfrey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harry Howell, Dave Johnston, Chuck Kessler, Gene Daly, and Grannis will share the defensive chores, and Godfrey Wood will help Bland in the goal...
Purlie Victorious (by Ossie Davis) peoples a Broadway stage with Negro characters that the N.A.A.C.P. has long claimed do not exist. Here is a cottonpicking Uncle Tom (Godfrey M. Cambridge) who hymns the supposedly subservient spirituals and cringes, hat in hand, before the white man ("You dah boss, Boss"). Here is the bighearted, yuk-yuk-yukking Southern mammy (Helen Martin). Here is the corn-pone simpleton (Ruby Dee) who says things like "Indo. I deed." Here is the unlicensed preacher hero, Purlie Victorious Judson (Ossie Davis)-a liar, a braggart, a trickster, and the self-appointed messiah of his race...
Property owners are. understandably, enchanted. Says Druggist Clyde Godfrey: "I have one building that on the open market wouldn't have brought a penny. My drugstore isn't worth more than a thousand dollars. I own another store over there that isn't worth more than $1.000. And I've got a piece of rental property that wouldn't have sold for more than $800. The urban renewal agency paid...
Calm & Confident. Godfrey, now that he has his money, has no particular plans for spending it. But. apparently, other citizens of Wink do; of the first eleven property owners who sold to McBee, three are making plans to move away. For that reason the project that was supposed to have saved Wink may sound its eventual death knell. Says one merchant: "A lot of people would have moved out a long time ago. only they didn't have any way to get the money to go." Says Wink Bulletin Editor Melvin Dow: "I'm just afraid...
...snatching away Mantle's milk money, the FTC took a line that could put a painful crimp in the $500 million-a-year business of testimonial advertising. Does Arthur Godfrey really use Sucaryl? Does Comedian Tom Poston actually sip Heublein martinis? Is it a fact that New York Giants' Quarterback Charley Conerly deodorizes himself with Trig? If the FTC vigorously enforces its policy, an eager world may yet learn the answers to all these questions and more...