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Whenever he is displeased by public curiosity. Arthur Godfrey disappears behind a velvet curtain of pressagents, vice presidents and well-rehearsed secretaries. Godfrey did his vanishing act once again last week when Liggett & Myers (Chesterfield cigarettes) withdrew its $4,000,000-a-year sponsorship from his Friday radio show, his Monday and Wednesday radio & TV shows, and the Wednesday night Arthur Godfrey & His Friends TV show...
Backstage Battle. What had ruptured the seven-year association between Godfrey and Chesterfield? Arthur's great & good friend Walter Winchell rushed into print with an explanation: "Godfrey quit his ciggie sponsors. They didn't quit him. He didn't like the commercials." New York Journal-American Columnist Dorothy Kilgallen had a different version: "Around CBS they say the split . . . was preceded by a sizzling backstage battle just before airtime," but Dorothy failed to say what the sizzling battle was about or whom it was between. Fred H. Walsh, president of the advertising agency concerned (Cunningham & Walsh), insisted...
...whispers grew louder in Manhattan. Godfrey was reported to have said that he was giving up smoking. Alternatively, he was said to have switched from Chesterfields to a pipe. Some pundits sagely viewed the incident as a sign of Godfrey's decline: "Coming after the LaRosa rumpus, it's another blow at Godfrey's prestige." Godfrey was rumored to be leaving CBS for NBC. to be retiring from radio & TV, to be thinking of entering 1) the Government or 2) a monastery...
Segregation of blacks and whites into separate states v. "racial partnership" was the issue last week in the first election in Britain's new Central African Federation, which is an amalgam of the Rhodesias and neighboring Nyasaland. Sir Godfrey Huggins' Federal Party took its stand on Cecil Rhodes's dictum, "Equal rights for all civilized men." Hugginsmen believe that a color bar is still necessary in primitive Africa, but gradually they hope to remove it, as the Negroes "come of age." Opposing Huggins are the diehard Confederates. Many of Northern Rhodesia's white copper miners...
...Richard D. Elwell, Lindsay E. Fischer, Richard E. Fischer, Harry P. Gelles, Alex H. Haegler, Francis S. Holmes, Edmund Jacobson, Jr., William Ezra Lingelback III, Dennis G. Little, Robert A. Lloyd, Rustin C. McIntosh, Charles A. Platt, Juan M. Rodrigues, David C. Rogers, Hugh A. Sargent, Stephen J. Szaraz, Godfrey Truslow, Marvin Weiss, John S. Whiting, David S. Wise, Arthur D. Levin...