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...presidency. We Democrats can break 90, but 108 is the figure we're interested in-out in '52, back in '56." At a news conference, he perched on a television set, and cracked: "I'm really on TV now. I'm glad Arthur Godfrey isn't here. This doesn't look like humility." After chuckling through breakfast with Stevenson, Mrs. Herman Talmadge, wife...
...surprise encore to a pop concert in Toronto, Conductor Andre Kostelanetz led the local symphony in the first playing of a spirited number, The Marine Boys March, written by an old acquaintance. On hand was the amateur composer: Mrs. Kathryn Godfrey, 76, sprightly mother of Radio-TV Impresario Arthur Godfrey. Said one Toronto critic: "An outstanding achievement...
...quite up to this level, most are enjoyable none-the-less. "Ad Man Out" starts quickly with "All That Glitters," a number embellished with the walking pack of cigarettes, the Firestone child with tire, etc. And the pace is generally kept throughout, with the possible exception of an Arthur Godfrey take-off. Here, however, the Pudding cannot be blamed if the Yale Bank stole a march...
Besides the overlong Godfrey sketch, the only major criticism of "Ad Man Out" is its running of acts one and two together. It would be much more effective to put an intermission right after "Don't You Ever." After this comes the beauty contest and an amusing Mexican-type dance, fine, but less effective because the audience is beginning to get a bit restless...
Seated in a jeep to save wear & tear on his ailing hip. TV Star Arthur Godfrey joined friends for the opening of the Michigan deer-hunting season. Among his fellow huntsmen: Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson, General Motors' President Harlow H. Curtice, SACommander General Curtis LeMay. In two days Godfrey fired five times, missed each time. Bag for the rest of the party: five bucks...