Word: godfreys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kept things consistently festive, and amused his viewers with an apt description of the holiday ("New Year's Eve is the night the A.A.A. and A.A. get together") and with his straight-faced predictions for 1955. Some of the predictions: Marilyn Monroe calendars will bring back 1954; Arthur Godfrey will fire his entire audience; Betty Furness will marry an iceman...
Fireside Theater (NBC), which stood at No. 7 in December 1953, has dropped to thirteenth. The other four falterers (Bob Hope, Colgate Comedy Hour, Godfrey's Talent Scouts, Godfrey and His Friends} have plummeted further-they are no longer to be found even in the top 20 shows. The season's best new comic, George Gobel, has climbed to No. 17 and seems headed for the Top Ten before the year...
...first program, an hour-long (Wed. 7:30-8:30, ABC) flight on electronic wings over the panorama of Disneyland's coming attractions, won a phenomenal Nielsen rating of 41, was watched by some 30.8 million people, and, as ABC's President Bob Kintner put it, "cut Godfrey, the best in the business, down to size." In the next two months Disney was never out of the "first ten." ABC believes that "Disney has the biggest family audience in show business today...
Phones, Flippers. Arthur Godfrey, having gotten into trouble during 1954 with humility, the Civil Aeronautics Board and the breeders of Weimaraner dogs, added followers of Senator Joseph McCarthy to his list. On the heels of McCarthy's break with the President, Godfrey commented on his show that "Dwight D. Eisenhower is a great President." The CBS switchboard was busy for a while with irate calls from McCarthyites announcing that they were down on both Godfrey and his sponsors...
President Pusey, Mrs. Ada C. Notestein, president emerita of Radcliffe, and Godfrey J. Cabot, honorary chairman, will speak at the exercises. Because of limited space, seniors and members of the Student Council are the only undergraduates invited to the ceremonies. The seniors will march in academic dress...