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CHARCO HARBOUR by Godfrey Blunden. 401 pages. Vanguard...
These words serve as the opening to one of Godfrey Blunden's chapters. They might well be the emblem of his book. The lost works that he has sought to retrieve from oblivion are those of the crew of H.M.S. Endeavor, a fat British collier fitted out as a naval vessel and dispatched in 1768 to explore the Pacific...
...without udders. Heavy breathing was edited out of TV movies, "suggestive positions" out of wrestling films. Kisses were limited to a few seconds, and terms relating to childbirth were forbidden. Not even a pause was pregnant. Even today, TV censors are still fairly nervous. Not long ago, says Comic Godfrey Cambridge, a National Educational Television censor refused to permit Cambridge to say "homosexual." When he protested, the censor compromised: it was O.K. to say "queer...
...were dismayed at her interest in opera: they loved "good" music but considered opera almost as frivolous as theater and jazz. But she was a girl with aggressive drive and unyielding self-assurance-and so proved it in her brief venture in real estate. Then Shirley won an Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts show in 1955, and the Juilliard School of Music gave her a full scholarship. Graduated in 1961, she had already made a successful Town Hall debut and been featured in a number of major concerts and recitals. She had also won $30,000 in a string...
...almost lost his right index finger when a gun breech slammed shut on it. In New York, where he studied classics at Juilliard and jazz with Teddy Wilson and Lennie Tristano, he and his wife existed for seven jobless months on spaghetti-even after Williams had won on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts by banging out a symphonic arrangement of I Got Rhythm...