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Among the correspondents reporting to Christopher was the Paris bureau's Godfrey Blunden, who reached into the past to provide invaluable material for the story. In 1943, at the Russian village of Tchlymskaia, Blunden met Malinovsky just as the Russian officer was completing the southern arc of the historic encirclement of German forces outside Stalingrad. Last week Blunden dug up the 17-year-old notes of his interview with Malinovsky, put them on the wire to New York. At the same time, Moscow Bureau Chief Edmund Stevens, who is fluent in Russian, was forwarding personal translations of the Soviets...
There were still muttered complaints. "What a grudging mood seems to have set in," complained Daily Express Columnist Godfrey Winn. Labor M.P.s protested the expense (an estimated $112,000) of the Caribbean honeymoon aboard the royal yacht Britannia. There was grumbling over the Palace's refusal to let the young couple drive in an open car through London on their way to embarking, and the banning of any sightseeing craft from the vicinity of the yacht itself. But when the great day finally arrives this week, it could be safely predicted that all Britain will be vibrating like...
...VINCENT GODFREY BURNS...
...come along in the last ten years." There is also a list of about 35 "semi-regular" guests. This week the visitors were Jack Benny and Diahann Carroll, but it was crew-cut Garry Moore, as usual, who clinched the show. Whether he was acting "a nice Arthur Godfrey," a wide-awake Perry Como, or the aging kid next door, Moore's casual, easy humor made everything come off-from a far-out science-fiction skit to a split-second...
...nine miles from the house, could be visited only twice a week, etc. - endless possibilities. Little could the unsung, unremembered hero foresee that his creation would one day produce a major crisis in the American entertainment world, comparable at the very least to the firing by Arthur Godfrey of Singer Julius La Rosa or the appearance of J. Fred Muggs more or less alongside Queen Elizabeth II on Dave Garroway's show - and more, that it would become in some quarters an issue of free speech, the soullessness of big corporations, the decline of public morality and perhaps...