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...Arthur Godfrey is a favorite of "the Middle Majority woman* [who] will seldom admit publicly or individually that she enjoys any form of 'crudity,' and will say that Godfrey's wit isn't up to her moral standards. . . . In the morning, with no one in her home to be shocked, she can wholeheartedly join in on the studio laughter and fun. At night, with the husband and children around, she isn't so free but she still enjoys...
...Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs Ernest Davies replied in effect: the government is not preventing anybody from leaving the country-it is just taking back some passports, which are government property. "[Such] withdrawal of a passport might constitute a grave reflection on a person's character," insisted Tory Godfrey Nicholson...
...Steve Allen Show (Mon.-Fri., 12 noon) started six months ago; since then, listeners with an aversion for the usual determined chatter shows have found welcome relief in Allen's aimless, leisurely style. A comic of the Godfrey school that grew with TV, Allen tells few set jokes, prefers the kind of cracks that grow suddenly and spontaneously out of ordinary situations. For the first five minutes of his show, he simply sits and chews over whatever happens to be on his fast-moving mind. Then he wanders around, reads (and makes appropriate cracks at) his fan mail, eats...
Radio-TV Comic Arthur Godfrey, whose formal higher education consisted of "one short year at Hasbrouck Heights High School" in New Jersey, got an honorary Doctor of Science degree at Rider College in Trenton, N J. Then Dr. Godfrey, who makes close to $1,000,000 a year, gave the students some unorthodox commencement advice: "Don't try to conquer the world. Remember the more you earn, the more you pay in taxes. You can't become wealthy today...
...groups, says Social Research, have common denominators of both tolerance and revulsion. Viewers generally approve of commercials that are integrated into programs (Martin Kane, Private Eye; Fred Waring; The Goldbergs) because integration makes them "seem short." They are partial to salesmen who inspire confidence or amuse them (Arthur Godfrey, Sid Stone of Texaco Star Theater, Stop the Music's Dennis James). They will accept, more or less grudgingly, commercials that show them how something is done (Kraft TV Theater, Garroway-at-Large...