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Sirs: Suggest that you refrain from using TIME'S important front cover for likenesses such as that of the yellow ape on your issue of Dec. 22. ... EDWIN DREXEL GODFREY Irvington-on-Hudson...
...British appointed a transport expert, Brigadier General Sir Godfrey Rhodes, as director of transportation through Iran. Within a few days complete plans had been drawn up. It was decided to improve two Persian Gulf ports, Iran's Bandar Shahpur and Iraq's Basra (see map). Road and rail links with Teheran and Tabriz would be improved or completed as soon as possible. Auxiliary lines, from India via Baluchistan or Afghanistan, and from the Mediterranean via Syria or Palestine, may also be developed. But all this would take a long time...
...hands of a lesser director than Gregory La Cava (My Man Godfrey, Stage Door) this theme might well have turned sour. By superb cinema artistry he raises it to the level of subtle, entertaining comedy without losing sight of its basic problem. That tour de force is a rare cinema triumph...
Soon booming away with ad lib gags, Broadcaster Godfrey was frightened in 1934 when NBC, with a lot of ballyhoo, announced a rival morning show. He decided to broadcast all night before his rival took to the air, on the theory that people would tune in on him in the morning just to see if he were still there. They...
Popular with Washington bigwigs. Godfrey raises blue-ribbon horses, is an honorary buck private in the U.S. cavalry, a lieutenant commander in the Naval Reserve...